This moment is full of crises that demand immediate attention and action.

The biggest of these crises include: the COVID-19 pandemic; climate change; public health (including mental health); business model disruption across most industries; the income crisis (which includes several crises, ranging from affordable housing/education/healthcare, to the disappearance of middle-class jobs to automation); the crisis of truth (on social media, and from there, into our social reality); and political polarization across the democratic world.

But all these immediate fires are symptoms of the same underlying deficiency: the steady disappearance from society of our capacity to be, think and act social.

For example:

• COVID-19. Individuals stockpile medical equipment - putting themselves at greater personal risk - because the public health needs are not real enough in their awareness.
• Climate change. Public rhetoric presents climate change as an existential threat that concerns "all of us". The reality is that society is deeply divided in its perception of environmental threats: between the resilient and vulnerable; the vilified and the victimized; between those who feel educated and informed and those who feel marginalized and ignored.
• Mental health. Rising rates of depression and youth suicide show how hard people find it now to transform their private concerns into shared, community matters. They don't know how. Or where.
• Business model disruption: The real world is becoming much more complex than our individual capacity to see cause & effect. Our blind spots are glaring. But we don't have ways of social sense-making to help us see the risks (and responses) that can only be understood together.

Every immediate crisis of this moment makes plain the limits of individual being, thought and action. Einstein was right: We cannot solve our problems at the same level of thinking at which they were created.