COVID-19 has exposed weaknesses across all aspects of society. What can it tell us about the reality of Western civilization?rnrnWhat if there is something to the notion of “the decline of the West” after all? For all our enlightenment faith in reason and progress, there are structural features of our existence that raise the question of whether it’s all just an extended dream. Has the COVID-19 pandemic finally snapped us out of it, and into the waking reality of a much poorer and less illusioned existence?
On Decline
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