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Progress as collapse

Progress as collapse

"Prolapse" for short

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Feb 10, 2022
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‘One day the bottom a-go drop out’ said the 20th century sage Robert Nesta Marley. He was referring to a bucket, but he may as well have had our institutions, social, political, diplomatic, financial – in mind. For we have all gone to the well and found the bucket is now a hole with a handle.

COVID simply revealed the degree of rot in our institutions, s…

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