One regular refrain of mine has been that almost none of our “pandemic response” dysfunctions are actually new. They were almost all around before, but the “pandemic response” amplified them and encouraged them to appear in new guises. And maybe I still need to write a long, “the world is broken right now for these 743 reasons” post. But for the moment I’m still mentioning them one by one.
It wasn't very satisfying, in 1942, to be one of the few people in the world who were publicly criticizing the war. My point is that if no man is an island, that means you can't take much pleasure in being right so long as most everyone in authority is making life worse.
Victimhood culture ported into COVID-world
It wasn't very satisfying, in 1942, to be one of the few people in the world who were publicly criticizing the war. My point is that if no man is an island, that means you can't take much pleasure in being right so long as most everyone in authority is making life worse.