Perhaps you're familiar with the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi.  It is an art form that begins with the premise that brokenness is not something to be regretted, but as something out of which can come something even better.  In contrast to most Western thought which holds that brokenness is something to be covered up, Kintsugi says that what is broken is not to be rejected and "fixed" back to its original form, but rather to become into something that is new, originally and dynamically new.

    Key is the idea that what was broken doesn't go away; it is remade into something that has never been before.  It is remade using even better materials than those with which it was originally constructed.  What was, however, remains.  But it is completely new.

    As many of us are feeling overwhelmed with the state of the world and wondering how much longer humanity will survive on the planet, we do well to take another look at the idea of Kintsugi.  Any new world we create will necessarily reflect the one we leave behind.  It cannot do otherwise.  Yet isn't it better to take what is not working now and, using fresh ideas and vision, remake it into something new, than to completely destroy the present for a future unknown?