{"id":60348,"date":"2021-11-08T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60348"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:41:51","slug":"things-feel-bleak-because-this-way-of-life-is-coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60348","title":{"rendered":"Things Feel Bleak Because This Way of Life is Coming to an End"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Things Feel Bleak Because This Way of Life is Coming to an End<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The Lesson of 2021 is Either We Change \u2014 or Things Collapse Around Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here\u2019s a tiny question. What is the lesson Covid is trying to teach us? As we settle in to a new normal, where Covid is going permanent, and there\u2019s not much anyone can do about it except the billionaires\u00a0who could vaccinate the world, but won\u2019t<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 what should we be learning?<\/p>\n

I think of Covid as a message backwards, from the future.\u00a0<\/strong>And it says something like this. Life as you knew it\u00a0is now over<\/a>. The future is now going to become a bitter and bruising battle for the basics. The\u00a0basics.\u00a0<\/em>Air, water, food, medicine, energy. Things that many of us once took for granted, and assumed would simply be around, as if by magic.<\/p>\n

That age is now coming to an end. Did you ever think that breathable air would be in short supply? Where you have to wear a mask, because the air could infect you with a respiratory virus? That is what the future looks like, except for all the basics.<\/p>\n

Another way to say that is that a certain way of life is now coming to an end.<\/p>\n

To make that point, let me ask the question: why have Eastern countries\u00a0done better on Covid<\/a>\u00a0than Western ones? What does that teach us about the future? Well, the first thing it teaches us that money and power and history are no guarantee of success in this battle for basics that the future is now about. Maybe the rich can buy clean air \u2014 but a whole society? Forget it.<\/p>\n

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Things Feel Bleak Because This Way of Life is Coming to an End The Lesson of 2021 is Either We Change \u2014 or Things Collapse Around Us Here\u2019s a tiny question. What is the lesson Covid is trying to teach us? As we settle in to a new normal, where Covid is going permanent, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[4609,140,141,150,29341,607,1266,16981],"class_list":["post-60348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-covid","tag-pandemic","tag-social-collapse","tag-umair-haque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60349,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60348\/revisions\/60349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}