The explosive outbreak of the new coronavirus tells us how fragile our social system is and, at times, how individual behavior can have a big impact on the whole. Irresponsible behavior of one individual increases the risk of infection for many people, and a small hoax played (or spread) by one individual adversely affects the whole.

Considering again, it can be said that this society has managed to maintain order by overlapping and weaving warp and weft yarns in a state where they do not normally come true. However, if the thread breaks even at one place, then the cracks will grow bigger and bigger.

Over the coming weeks, or even months (perhaps a year or more), we humans will be forced to “responsibly act” as members of society on a global scale. There is no doubt that the economy will be significantly chilled, it will hit lives, and it is not the time to think ahead.

However, in a sense, I think this kind of situation may bring many “by-products” to society. The runaway generation may want to return to the “pre-Corona world,” but the consciousness of young people, in particular, will awaken considerably.

When the peaceful everyday life is destroyed and the priorities around us are shuffled, we can see the dissatisfaction of the social system by thinking about “what is important”. Not only that modern society is powerless against infectious diseases, but also how they have been burdening the environment and how it backlashes and threatens their lives … .

Fragmentary information should eventually connect like a montage. In a somewhat bold and prophetic way, more and more young people around the world will have a perspective like Greta Thunberg.

Adults with heart have sought her to be obsessive. Greta, I understand your feelings, but the world is not that simple. First, learn the basics of the economy and then make a statement: There was also a clause in which many young people actually perceived this as “reasonable”.

But in the “post-corona world,” that may change. At the very least, there will be far more people listening to Greta’s desperate words, “I must change now.”

I feel that there is a big swell that we need to change not only environmental issues but also all disparities and distorted social systems without waiting, and we cannot cheat any further.

However, it is not an “old left-wing” movement that mobilizes people for demonstrations and gatherings to power politics with the power of the crowd. It is an image that changes the color of society by the individual’s real sense, consumption behavior and daily behavior based on the real sense of crisis.

If the target of the Old Left is a revolution, this target is “awakening”. Rather than solidarity with someone, it is a direct action that starts by changing one’s lifestyle by one’s will. What was previously said to be only a part of “conscious people” may spread considerably in the post-Corona world.