By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
May 6, 2026
The Chinese proverb "When you're thirsty, it's too late to dig a well" summarizes an experiential approach to the challenges many of us will encounter should recession and/or some form of revolution upend our lives.
I often write about experience and models and systems, but I realize I've never addressed the deep chasm between them. We experience life on multiple levels, reflecting the complex nature of life, our species' social and cognitive foundations, and the complex interactions of our senses, awareness, emotions, intuition and our ability to return to the past in memory and leap forward in time in anticipation.