{"id":52149,"date":"2020-04-03T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52149"},"modified":"2020-04-03T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:05:26","slug":"coronavirus-spells-the-end-of-the-neoliberal-era-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52149","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What\u2019s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patternsofmeaning.com\/2020\/04\/02\/coronavirus-spells-the-end-of-the-neoliberal-era-whats-next\/\">Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What\u2019s\u00a0Next?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a \u201cFortress Earth\u201d or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Think Bigger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever you might be thinking about the long-term impacts of the coronavirus epidemic, you\u2019re probably not thinking big enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our lives have already been reshaped so dramatically in the past few weeks that it\u2019s difficult to see beyond the next news cycle. We\u2019re bracing for the recession we all know is here, wondering how long the lockdown will last, and praying that our loved ones will all make it through alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, in the same way that Covid-19 is spreading at an exponential rate, we also need to think exponentially about its long-term impact on our culture and society. A year or two from now, the virus itself will likely have become a manageable part of our lives\u2014effective treatments will have emerged; a vaccine will be available. But the impact of coronavirus on our global civilization will only just be unfolding. The massive disruptions we\u2019re already seeing in our lives are just the first heralds of a historic transformation in political and societal norms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Covid-19 were spreading across a stable and resilient world, its impact could be abrupt but contained. Leaders would consult together; economies disrupted temporarily; people would make do for a while with changed circumstances\u2014and then, after the shock, look forward to getting back to normal. That\u2019s not, however, the world in which we live. Instead, this coronavirus is revealing the structural faults of a system that have been papered over for decades as they\u2019ve been steadily worsening. Gaping economic inequalities, rampant ecological destruction, and pervasive political corruption are all\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2020-03-25\/an-overview-of-the-systemic-implications-of-the-coronavirus\/\">results of unbalanced systems<\/a>\u00a0relying on each other to remain precariously poised. Now, as one system destabilizes, expect others to tumble down in tandem in a cascade known by researchers as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/insurge-intelligence\/coronavirus-synchronous-failure-and-the-global-phase-shift-3f00d4552940\">synchronous failure<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What\u2019s\u00a0Next? Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a \u201cFortress Earth\u201d or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values? 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