The Cloth of Our Culture Has Worn Thin

Together We Will Weave A new One

The cloth of our culture has worn thin. The blanket we wove to hold the story of who we are, the cover in which we wrapped ourselves in collective meaning and identity has frayed and can no longer hold us — the stitches are coming undone and holes too big to repair are rent across the fabric of our civilisation.

The cloth of every culture and civilisation before us thinned in the same way and a new one was woven with stronger threads, stitching and patterning but it too frayed in its turn.

When the blanket wears too thin to hold collective meaning the time comes when we must weave a new one. We are in that time now. If we look back over our culture we see it had seismic fault lines in it from the beginning; weaknesses of not-love: inequality, injustice, prejudice, patriarchy, hierarchical power and more woven into the weft and weave of the cultural cloth.

The pattern of life and of history is that cultures and civilisations do not last indefinitely but it is a wondrous experience to know we are living through such a liminal time of transition and that the new cloth can intentionally be woven by us, with the meaning we want to make and the identity we want to have.

What is that meaning and what is that identity?

If we look forwards and perceive an altogether brighter, lighter future, a future woven with threads of eternal love and world peace, we can weave that blanket if we choose to do so.