I like this sentence because it brings to the table what we very much need, which is to slow down, not to stop progress but to assess, analyze and make long term plans that allow us to have a bit more control over the big changes were are facing. In Spanish there is a saying: "Dress me slowly for I am in a hurry" which is a funny way of talking about the biggest irony in life: we need to stop running after our emotions to be able to see the path we have ahead.

Many of us are being criticized and called deterministic precisely for pointing out that we have to to reduce the speed with which we, as a society, want to arrive to the future. I understand that it might seem a position to take against any sense of survival. When we acknowledge a danger, the impulse is to act, to do something, to gather more information... And staying still for a minute, for many people seems like giving up, though, resilience comes more from those minutes of stillness than any action at all.

Great article, Danah.