What's Next: 2020 Onwards
By Peter Dwyer
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The title of this short book is What's Next?, and the short answer is Who Knows? This is despite the mounting evidence that our current worldwide problems are leading people to reassess their priorities for the future and insist on the need for change. The purpose of the book is to take this contrast seri
Peter Dwyer
Peter Dwyer, born 1935 retired from his position as Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne in 2000, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow. From 1989 he served as a Senior Research Consultant at the University of Melbourne, undertaking collaborative research studies internationally on youth pathways in education. He has makor books, articles and research to his credit. Since his retirement he has published three new books, two available from Amazon and Sid Harta publishers- his memior Life Journeys (2006), and Recovery- Towards a New Future (2010), devoted to a detailed study of the current global crisis and Facing 2030 with Balboa (2020)
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What's Next - Peter Dwyer
Copyright © 2023 Peter J Dwyer
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Contents
Introduction
1. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
2. THE VIRUS RESPONSE
3. THE HAUNTING PAST
4. WHOSE PRIORITIES?
5. BEYOND PLATITUDES
6. CAN WE DO IT?
7. IS THERE A POST-VIRAL RECOVERY?
8. ACTIVE VOICE
9. THE POPULATION PROBLEM
10. AVOIDING NEW MYTHS
11. A NEW ADULTHOOD
12. MANPOWER
GO, Go, Go
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Introduction
The title of this short book is What’s Next?, and the short answer is Who Knows? This is despite the mounting evidence that our current worldwide problems are leading people to reassess their priorities for the future and insist on the need for change.
There is a sharp contrast between what we have inherited as the priorities of the traditional state, namely defense, public order, the prevention of epidemics and the aversion of mass discontent
(Judt, Ill Fares the Land, p. 78) and the emerging priorities revealed in a recent UN survey about the world we want to create
which showed the global public’s priorities were protecting the environment, protecting human rights, less conflict, equal access to basic services, and zero discrimination.
This kind of contrast has led one recent commentator to claim that, a lot of people can’t place the rapidly oscillating feelings they have right now: a rollercoaster mix of fear, sadness, boredom, tension and flatness.
The purpose of the book is to take this contrast seriously, and not only to accept the task of seeing what is at stake as we enter upon a new future, but also to face up to the challenge flowing from what this reveals: Can We Do It?
Obviously, the impact of the current global pandemic of Clovid 19 has had a significant impact on the text. It consists of twelve chapters, beginning with what I see as Unfinished Business in chapter 1, the main elements of The Virus Response in chapter 2, and what this reveals to us about what I have called The Haunting Past in chapter 3. I then move on to possible solutions, asking Whose Responses? in chapter 4, which examines the ways in which leadership becomes distorted as it becomes identified with dominance and the ambition of some to join the ‘great men of history". Looking Beyond Platitudes becomes the theme in chapter 5, then the difficult question of Can We Do It? is faced In chapter 6, before bringing it all home to the immediate worldwide concern of Is There A Post-Viral Recovery? in chapter 7.
I hope that what emerges from all the evidence uncovered is some kind of viable future pathway that can help all peoples and their current leaders move on as genuine custodians of a safer and more sustainable planet for us all. Achieving this will depend greatly on the extent to which those who feel marginalised in our current world are included in the shaping of the future of us all, which is the main focus of the theme of Active Voice in chapter 8. Daring to take such an issue seriously forces us to go a few steps further. So, chapter 9 dares to confront the hidden challenge of The Population Problem and all it carries with it, before a further reflection on Avoiding New Myths in chapter 10 faces up to the myths about social change we always tend