Big mouths were heard and sensitivities were trampled. A fine mess. We were warned 25 years ago, but the bulldozers and the tempting adverts kept coming. Yet, we didn't make the changes we then knew we needed to make. So we're heading for a Reckoning, a situation where order is overwhelmed by chaos.
Chaos quickens growth, but the difficult bit, chaos, comes first.
The devastation we experienced when reality hit the OakDragon camps, for three years from 1988, threw people back on themselves - it was heartbreaking to some. In situations such as this one realises that no dream at all is far better than a failed dream. Gorbacheved' out of the OakDragon, and hid in an attic to 'process my stuff'. The movement seemed doomed to miss its purpose. The flip-side of doing our own thing is loneliness, the quiet despair arising from broken relationships and betrayed trysts in profusion.