“Any radical shift in consciousness requires the stimulus of crisis.” Robert & Edward Skidelsky
I came across this quote recently in a book I am reading, picked my pencil up, and put a question mark by it. My immediate urge was to deny the truth of this, but I have not, in the time since, been successful in convincing myself that it is not true. The best I could do was convince myself that “crisis” is a relative term, and, in the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” tradition, I have almost convinced myself that it is a good thing that it is true. I mean, who wants to have a “radical shift in consciousness” occur on a whim. Still, I haven’t erased the question mark!
It occurs to me... 