CRISIS is unavoidable. Every individual human life and every society is drawn eventually, as if by some unspoken parallel, as if by some tidal flow or underground magnetic field, toward the raw, dynamic essentials of its underlying existence, as if everything up to that point has been a preparation for a meeting, a confrontation in elemental form with the essential flaw in our makeup or the makeup of our society, and with what until then, we could only receive stepped down, interpreted or … Continue reading
Adultum – A Critical Narrative at the End of Growth and a Name for the Coming Age
Is human civilisation about to grow up and take on responsibility for its actions? "The Anglo-Saxon usage of the adjective “adult” relates to a grown-up person; in the German language “adult” is mainly used as a biological term for maturity. At the end of quantitative growth, the term in its neuterform “Adultum” could accentuate the emancipatory skills and knowledge of adulthood in social terms as a name for the coming age. "As a term rooted in the tradition of the Enlightenment it would, as a … Continue reading
