Why We Need a New Enlightenment Now

joachim jake layes
7 min readNov 20, 2020
Photo by Nghia Le on Unsplash

*The* Challenge of Our Times

Amidst a global pandemic, our collective biggest challenge is to deal with different persistent perceptions of truth, different alternate universes of reality. Some say the dress is white and gold, for others it’s black and blue. It is surprising, if not maddening, that we are experiencing at the beginning of the 21st century such polarization (no, this…

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joachim jake layes

European in Asia. Designer. MBA. Angel Investor. In search of patterns in design, innovation, sustainability for a thriving, regenerative, inclusive economy.