The pandemic will not create a new class of the powerful or the rich, nor will it create new heads of state In the entire history of prose, does this sentence exist in any language: “We are living in very unimportant times"?
Now it does, I know, but before this moment, no one might have said it. People have always believed that they are living through monumental and transformative times.
Every generation, even without enduring a pandemic, has an exaggerated reverence for the importance of its own epoch. That is why I do not fully believe the emerging idea that a virus has altered the world forever.
The world after the pandemic will be highly recognizable, even “normal". There will be some minor changes, of course. The cultural dominance of