(i)
If we think of problems as circles, then primary problems
are the widest circles we can think about. They shape
and condition the whole of an era, and necessarily challenge
us with all the unavoidable force of necessity. In the current
era, by far the most central of primary problems, arguably
subsuming in its way both the self-evident Climate Crisis
and the great and present troubled shift to a world-wide
regenerative energy social economy, is the problem of
violence, violence against oneself, against others, and
violence against the living Earth.
(ii) We are only truly together with one another insofar
as we are alive to, and share the same sense of urgency
about, the same set of primary problems.