Surveying Post COVID Change
Urban life is evolving fast, national politics is in steep decline
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ May 16, 2020
The depth and breadth of change from the pre-COVID-19 world is a planetary metamorphosis. It is safe to say that we will all spend the rest of our lives working to understand and redefine ourselves in this new order.
These early days are hard, and all the dust from the ongoing collapse of the old world makes it dangerous and difficult to see. We still have a significant part of the population struggling to pretend that the previous world will somehow spring back to life and carry on in all its waste, extreme wealth, and poverty.
Usually, these are the people, a shrinking minority who became rich and powerful beyond their dreams in the twisted distortions of late-stage, extreme capitalism. The most significant related group is the population, desperately clinging to the illusion of the American middle class that makes up the new precariat. Most of these bought the fantasy of a future return to middle-class America that was fabricated by the ruling elite to protect their ownership.
The bulk of the educated and professional population understands how tenuous this had become and now hangs between insecurity, depression, and fear of descent to full…
