The Race Is On

Allan Milne Lees
6 min readMar 27, 2020

Why our immediate reaction to fear is unsustainable

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Loathe though I am to contribute to the seemingly endless deluge of “what coronavirus means for the future of home macramé” and similar articles, I reluctantly feel that it may be worth while to add one forward-looking thought experiment to the vast field of electronic detritus simply because we’ve entered a paradigm from which there is currently no obvious exit.

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Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.