The Parable of the Marriage

These days humanity finds itself at the center of an enormous converging crisis. A wide variety of global-scale problems in ecology, energy and economics are joining forces before our eyes to threaten a massive disruption of the human experience. Inevitably we ask ourselves the question, “How on earth did this happen to us?”

I find metaphors to be very helpful in thinking about our predicament. In this article Paul Chefurka presents a metaphor that I think has strong similarities to our current situation. It may help to clarify how this state of affairs came to be, and why we are having such a hard time getting ourselves out of it.

The metaphor itself is unfortunately all too common in our culture – it’s the story of an abusive husband and his abused wife.

http://paulchefurka.ca/Parable.html