The pandemic that didn’t change the world
https://www.ft.com/content/c0734fa8-9b29-4f8e-848d-589dc92edbb8
Janan Ganesh observes:
Condemned to record novelties, my profession can overrate how deep a new trend or idea ever penetrates.
You can go two ways here. One is to comfort yourself, in a “This too shall pass” sense. But there is a bleaker angle: the tenuousness and insubstantiality of almost everything. If an event as huge as the pandemic did not set society on a new course, what chance the “loneliness epidemic”, or most elections, or this or that over-chronicled Gen Z fad? Almost all in the public realm that you are asked to devote time and thought to is vapour.
https://www.ft.com/content/c0734fa8-9b29-4f8e-848d-589dc92edbb8
Janan Ganesh observes:
Condemned to record novelties, my profession can overrate how deep a new trend or idea ever penetrates.
You can go two ways here. One is to comfort yourself, in a “This too shall pass” sense. But there is a bleaker angle: the tenuousness and insubstantiality of almost everything. If an event as huge as the pandemic did not set society on a new course, what chance the “loneliness epidemic”, or most elections, or this or that over-chronicled Gen Z fad? Almost all in the public realm that you are asked to devote time and thought to is vapour.