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The new normal seems exactly like the old normal except everything good is delayed, costs more, and involves more paperwork, and everything bad is accelerated and less containable by paperwork or money. And no deep lessons have been learned.
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It’s really rare for humanity to learn anything from big events. We mostly just collect a lot of data for future scholars to analyze after it’s too late
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A big historic event is like a very hurried package tour on an airport layover in a foreign city. Grab a souvenir, take a bunch of photos, maybe review them later if you get around to it.
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