In self-isolation, there was a request for the utopia of the post-apocalypse. The new world after rescue from the virus is characterized by distance education and online retail, remote work, and “consumption quarantine”, a fresh iteration of globalism and solidarity forms of the new capitalism. Thinkers construct a happy, purified civilization – and probably some of these predictions will come true. But so far we have seen the intense destruction of the old world. The degradation of the political and economic world system is long overdue, and “black swans” have been caught for years. Nassim Taleb believes that a pandemic is only a “white swan”, i.e. a crisis that would eventually take place with high probability. Perhaps the destructive events that we do not see yet are still waiting for mankind.
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