I think we as a mankind went through some collective mental trauma re dealing with covid pandemics, and our subconsiousness ain't best equipped to deal with it. Just like with other trauma it blurred it into into some hazy dreamy distant maybe-land.
Fascinating to see it happening in real time and be part of it.
Amen. All the economic and cultural and political upheaval, not to mention war that’s happened since, we seem to assume that the pandemic stressed a bunch of systems and that’s the causality.
I feel like we don’t sufficiently acknowledge that a mass-trauma event also made the entire damn species more irrational and reactive, and that’s going to be our reality for a generation.
Fascinating to see it happening in real time and be part of it.