In the Eye of the hurricane, it is dead quiet. You hear and see nothing of the outside world. Nothing moves. In the eye you are in the middle of an enormous chaos. Around the eye, everything is swept away and destroyed. Everything is being dragged or sucked away. The air around the eye resembles a mountain of trash in motion. Unrecognizable debris, sometimes people, cars, and parts of houses. Not to mention the trees.
In the eye of the hurricane, there is a serene silence as if the world outside does not exist.
We are currently living in the eye of a hurricane. A hurricane of climate change, refugee flows, floods, wars and oppression. The silence in the eye is deafening. Every person in that eye waits shivering with fear: “What happens if the hurricane moves on?”.
Sitting in the eye, we must think ahead and employ our common sense in that thinking, about how to anticipate such things in the near and further future. The impenetrable mass of clouds that surround us and obscure our view, how should we deal with them?
We are caught up in our own problems. We have allowed ourselves to be led by the power of money and have therefore forfeited our future. If that problem is solvable at all, it will require a huge amount of the resources available to us.
