‽istis wonders and tries to reclaim: tipping
points… (weekending July 10th 2021)
This week ‽istis wonders about ‘tipping
points’ and seeks possible insights, hints and tips from some of the events of
the week, just some of which might ‘make history’…
‽ tennis
matches and football: tipping-points influenced perhaps by the oh so slight
edge gradually prevailing in tight matches wrought through the intricate coming
together of innate skill, training, fitness, tactics, competence, confidence, experience,
pride, the home advantage, the loudness of the crowd, expectations, good fortune,
serendipity, the perception of referee or umpire or VAR or ‘Hawkeye’…
‽ the fate
of a small town in British Colombia[i]: tipping-points
influenced possibly by the dreadful example that leads to thoughts such as: ‘if
it could happen here, it could happen anywhere and to anybody - even people
like me and places like mine’; ‘perhaps, actually, we have been and still are
responsible?’; ‘possibly we can/cannot not do something about it?’; ‘maybe it’s
not too late?’…
‽ the
R-rate, spread and impact of a virus in Indonesia[ii]: tipping-points
influenced maybe by the recognition/lack of recognition that no-one is safe
until everyone is safe; by health infrastructure local, national and global; by
social conditions…
‽ the leadership,
government and future of people in Haiti[iii]
and Afghanistan[iv]:
tipping-points influenced perhaps by political and models-of-government ideologies;
the flexing of international muscles in the exercise of regional interests;
religion (and the rise/fall of capitalism?); poverty and the legacy of empires…
‽ the
irreversibility of a decision linked to data and dates (though not necessarily
in that order)[v]:
tipping-points influenced possibly by the science, the evidence; perhaps by the
polling and focus-group findings or the trajectory of kites flown in the media;
maybe by transparent well-considered, finely-balanced but reasoned, reasonable
and defendable cost-benefit analysis and decision-making recognising the complexities
of different and maybe irreconcilable ways of defining health and wellbeing, where
‘who do we not save?’ is a realistic (a no-less-chilling) question…
And, once again, ‽istis’ wonderings this
week are in danger of ending more in flight, faint or freeze – than in foundations
firm enough to support the fight to tip the balance away from just imagining
that things could be different and better, to finding ways to actually bring it
about…
©
Pistis
NB: further reflections and comments linked to
this week’s theme and past blog
entries to be found on Twitter: replies, retweets (which don’t necessarily
indicate approval, sometimes the very opposite!) and ‘likes’:
@Pistis_wonders
[i]
See, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/canada-wildfires-british-columbia-heatwave
[ii]
See, for example: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-emergency-covid-19-curbs-be-effective-july-2-20-minister-2021-07-01/
(and Pistis wonders whether the situation says anything about the ‘grace of God’?
‘"With cooperation from all of us and the grace of
God, I'm certain that we can suppress COVID-19 transmission and restore
people's lives quickly," said the president…’
[iii]
See, for example: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/07/americas/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-attack-intl/index.html
