Seshat Volume 7

Wishful idealism youthful optimism and a rose-tinted romanticism of the world is a somewhat necessary precondition for ambition dreams and ways of life. However when these ideals get tested in the crucible of reality the space for naivete is very limited. Oftentimes there is a rite of passage with maturity and age whereby an individual or a collective may abandon a past perhaps more innocent outlook in exchange for a more realistic one. That being said sometimes this realism if not properly tempered can produce a type of jaded complacency that can spiral into loneliness despair or detachment. The rise of social media new pandemic variants and endeavours that tread further and further beyond familiar terrains put our ideas and ideals to the test and ask us to consider and reconsider our realities in the context ofboth hope and rationality.