The Past, Present: How we got this chaos, and what we do about it
Dr Bryan Mukandi
Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, opened her address at the 9th Summit of the Americas with a quotation from Bob Marley’s ‘So Much Trouble in the World’. At that time, Mottley counted three global crises: the climate crisis; the COVID pandemic; and rising inflation of food, fertiliser and fuel prices. That was three years ago. The crises have since compounded and we stand today at the edge of a terrifying precipice. Yet instead of looking forward or attempting to peer into the abyss before us, I’m going to argue that we turn to and reckon with the past. Drawing on a chorus of visual artists, writers and philosophers, I will further argue that collective study of the past is our best hope to bring about the ‘education of feeling’ that George Lamming thought essential for human liberation.
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