We're all waiting to see what "the end of the world as we know it" will look like

I'm a realist. I figure it's gonna look a lot like the old world looked like, but worse.

The haves will have more, and the rest will be a little more up against it.

Other than that, at least for the haves, things will move along.

Certainly, some industries are unlikely to recover. Mass tourism, for example. Cruise ships and all-inconclusive resort holidays. That's not an industry that's essential to the survival of humanity. In fact, we'd do well to be rid of it.

We need to rethink some aspects of our global supply chains as well. How important is it to me to buy tomatoes from South America in February? There are a lot of good sound reasons why we shouldn't bail out some industries, such as airlines and oil companies.

If there were a broad-based sense of revolutionary zeal visible anywhere, maybe we could use this moment to raise the bar a little. Let's seriously think about the unthinkable; single payer health care, universal basic income, the demilitarisation of the economy...


Alas, I'm not detecting anything near revolutionary zeal anywhere. The narrative managers are doing a great job of keeping that from happening.