The person who walks around while the Titanic is sinking, and calmly begins rearranging the deck chairs, organizing the evacuation, and gets everyone off the ship before it sinks becomes, by default, the future captain of the rescue vessel in the North Atlantic.
That person also becomes a new Noah.
Here is a list of 26 icebergs (non-exhaustive, your list (and mileage) may vary) where, as the Titanic ship of state known as global society collides with them and begins to sink, you can be the default captain of the rescue ships later:
- Climate change
- Fear of change
- Growing use of A.I. based technology
- Biodiversity disappearance
- Lack of sufficient explanations that people can understand for necessary changes
- Financial systems collapse
- Refusal to be held accountable
- Developing world debt
- Connection economy of the Internet
- Rethinking of Labor Value
- The electrical grid in the postmodern world
- Lack of access to creation on the Internet
- Lack of courage in individuals to take risks
- First world educational system
- Scarcity of emotional labor
- Child abuse and victimization
- Lack of true, courageous statesmanship
- Human trafficking
- Increased spiritual hopelessness among the old
- Increased spiritual hopelessness among the young
- Lack of self-efficacy
- Growing ability to hide from what matters
- Thinking harder about the answers to binary questions
- Lack of interest in self-awareness
- Lack of ability to emotionally care
- The increasingly intractable nature of conflicts
There are other ones out there as well. There’s no lack of icebergs. There is, however a lack of people calmly prepared to be captains in future rescue boats.
