Root Cause?

 
It is possible to burrow through the multiple, disparate, Crises that afflict the world today, – incl. Covid, Climate Change (and consequent Ecocide) , and the threat of possible Nuclear annihilation – to arrive at the core of what might be envisaged as a compelling ‘root cause’.
 
I mean that term in a very broad sense, well beyond causal factors, to also include factors that support , augment, and exacerbate the Crises: directly or indirectly, by acts of either commission or omission.
 
I place it below, in verse form.
 
It constitutes a small part of my study of EuroModernism – the European Model of Modernism that has dominated the world for well over Two Centuries – and derives from my explorations therein.
 
It would seem to follow, I might add, that none of the Crises we face can be at all ameliorated until that ‘root cause’ is first firmly extirpated from our modes of thought and practices ; a daunting task, since the powers that be lean so heavily on it to achieve their unseemly ends (despite protestations, to the contrary).
 
It may appear to be trite, trivial , and truistic , on the face of it: but it is as real as the Crises it has provoked.
 
It also marks the Great European Innovation – where Europe separated itself from the mains currents of human history – that now threatens to destroy all life on this planet.

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The Provenance

Private Gain,

OR Common Good?

Answer, was always

Understood –

Till Europe, in

Everlasting Bane

saw the Common Good,

in Private Gain
 
[© R.Kanth 2020]

Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).

[© R.Kanth 2020]