The great rearrangement

Just a couple of weeks ago it would have seemed unbelievable that our lives would be overturned; now we think that we may never put the nightmare behind us and return to that recent normality.

Sooner or later, though, scientists will find the therapy and vaccine for this virus. The great change will be in our understanding of the world and ourselves, of our priorities, our hopes, our limits. This may encourage a yearning for an idealized past; more likely, though, it will lead to a new approach to how we should handle the present and the future. This will not happen because some people will choose it, but because humanity wants to survive: To succeed in the new environment, it will have to adapt, to change mentalities, mechanisms and behavior.

Today we all realize the paradox that though we are alone - individuals - we are totally dependent on others, from those...

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