Editorial. Rites of passage

Abstract

“Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it”, argued the futurist Alvin Toffler in his famous book Future Shock. Toffler wrote this in 1970, half a century ago. But how much more true today, when a political (Brexit), an ecological (climate change) and a psychological crisis – which is what the pandemic is – confront old Europe with a seemingly insurmountable mountain of problems. The question, however, is what exactly it means when Toffler...