The after-postmodern “new normal”.

We used to write here that some thinkers talked about “big transition” is going on. Erwin Laszlo wrote in the end of 20^th century about a “macro shift”. Under Thomas Kuhn concepts we can think about paradigm changing. But probably none of them thought about a pandemic like this one. Even fiction writers did not imagine that kind of epidemic. In some way has a mild characterization, in other way is powerful to keep each one apart and bring an all new way to live together, or “almost together”. For while there is no scenario to imagine. It is constructed day by day, everyday changing, in a new Bauman liquid concept…  

“The End of Normal” and Pandemic

     In 2014 James K. Galbraith publicized a book named “The End of Normal – The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth”. He wrote that the world economy cannot grow anymore under the same objectives as gross domestic product, work, jobs and stock exchange. All of that was considered the “normal paradigm”. He said about the need of a balance among natural resources, consumerism and excessive accumulation: a new paradigm.

     Nowadays, under the pandemic of Covid-19, someone is talking about “a new normal” that is coming, and that many things are going to change. Maybe “The End of Normal” of Galbraith has something in common with “the new normal” after the pandemic…