It's starting to feel like 1932 all over again
We are living in dangerous and disturbing times. I don't think this needs repeating to most people who have been paying attention to the news over the past decade or two, but it seems as though many of our fellow human denizens of the earth have either not been alert recently, or else have convinced themselves that this is not the case. The rise of populist leaders around the world ( as I wrote about here ), the rapidly warming global climate, the rapid destruction of the natural world , our ballooning human population , widening economic inequality, the geopolitical rise of authoritarian states such as China, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and the morass of social-media-fuelled disinformation polluting the well of public discourse have each been a negative development, but put together they provided the kindling to ignite the raging fires of social, political and economic upheaval caused by 2020's covid-19 pandemic. The current area of greatest concern f...