The sadness of all this starting to hit. Not just the immediate tragedy but the sense of the relatively happier world of the last few decades coming to an end. A sort of third age of middle earth coming to an end feeling.
Because a huge number of people are about to die prematurely, and vastly more are going to go through an utterly miserable time, to buy that reform opportunity
On a certain class of futures, yes I’ve given up. Doesn’t mean other good futures are not imaginable or cannot be pursued. But a certain sort of positive vision has died for the time being, possibly my lifetime.