When I wrote my last blog post, Purposefulness in a World at War, I found myself holding a quiet but hopeful assumption. That the world, fractured as it is, would eventually move towards something recognisable as post‑war. That there would be a settling, an aftermath, a time for rebuilding and reflection.
Yet, as weeks have turned into months, that assumption feels increasingly naïve.
What we seem to be living through is not a temporary disturbance between periods of stability, but the emergence of a new normal: sustained uncertainty. Wars without clear endings, economic volatility that refuses to stabilise, climate disruptions that defy prediction, technological acceleration that outpaces ethical reflection, and social divisions that seem to harden rather than heal.
Uncertainty is no longer an interruption to normal life. It is normal life.
This raises a far more demanding question than the one I posed earlier:
How do we remain purposeful when uncertainty is not a phase to be endured, but a condition to be lived with?
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