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The Greatest Irony
Why the wrong people are advocating the right things and the right people are advocating the wrong things
OK, I know we’re either all too hysterical to be capable of absorbing reasoned argument, or too bored to care.
But… this is important, so let’s give it a try one last time (and I promise I won’t write about covid-19 again).
How did we end up where we are today, with half a billion people across Africa and Asia thrown into absolute poverty and starvation and tens of millions of those living in more developed nations out of work and, in many cases, unable to secure sufficient funds to prevent themselves from serious distress? How did we persuade ourselves that shutting down the world and spending trillions of dollars to bail out corporations was the best way to protect the vulnerable?
We got here because we the citizens were stampeded into hysteria by a totally irresponsible mass media that relies on churning out a continuous stream of sensationalist reportage in order to maintain its revenue streams. As we panicked and screamed, dull-witted politicians scrambled to look for ways they could appear “to be doing something” and thus avoid losing too many votes at the next election.
In short, we screwed ourselves.
