I am poorly, and currently on tablets. My wife and son have been ill for some time too. As a result, Frank is not right, and cannot work right now.
This week’s offering is therefore a repost from far behind the paywall. It is about the central pillar of the Liberal creed - Progress.
I hope that normal service will be resumed soon.
The Myth of Human Progress
‘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, structures and polity and was not the cause of them. It may prove to offer them a lifeline, as ‘because of COVID’ has become one of these phrases you hear whose mention is the end of the conversation.
Of course, as with all these other word spells intended to distract us from the disaster …
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