However, this said, at the time it felt as if conservatism and resistance to change was dominant. Also, a shift is occurring, in which we are being forced by circumstance to acknowledge that our previous acts have brought us very close to destruction - and therefore that responsibility and wisdom must characterise the future. We are being faced with the inevitability of cooperation and reconciliation - by everyone with everybody else. This is about governance and constitutions, laws and protocols, economics and commodities, land and resources - and the pros and cons of traditions and institutions as stabilisers of the human condition. It's like the rear wheels going into a skid, so that everyone suddenly finds themselves pointing in a new direction.
Reality looks quite different.
The 1993 conjunction, while upping the chances of chaos and furtive outbreaks of degeneration and regeneration, is likely to be a turning-point which sets off a long process of change, not an isolated blip of historical changes which come and then go. Except that this time, such principles demand overall application, fast, for practical reasons. 1993 will yield a shift of awareness and of reality, so that everything begins looking very different. While the world economy is apparently changing fast, its fundamental principles remain unchanged and extending rapidly. But, as was proven at the Earth Summit of 1993, the issues are not simple, and there is too much which has to be handled at one time.