[bad_username]

The world's response to the pandemic undermined my belief that the human civilization can handle an existential crisis rationally and efficiently. Covid is of course nowhere near an existential crisis. But still, we so readily plunged ourselves into an irrational, politicized, polarized, radicalized, univariate, low-resolution mess, that if the real s*t hits the fan, I am not sure we stand a chance. I never lost so much trust in so many people, institutions, things and concepts at such a rapid pace. The fragility of our humanity became to me acutely apparent.

[lborsato]

It’s as if a majority lost the ability to think critically, choosing instead to tilt at the windmills of incessant fear propaganda from media/social media, usually lacking any context to assuage that fear.