Well, the "as we know it" part is crucial. Yes, whatever happens, however bad things get even if they do get much worse from here, life will go on. I never made any claims to the contrary. However, I can't help but look around and see a delicate balance in the world that was held (by no means perfectly and by no means steadily, but held nonetheless) for most if not all of my life, crumbling away faster than anyone can think of how to stop it. As I've said before, it's not just a question of things going wrong, it's a question of how much all seems to be going wrong at once, and how cumbersome the response to it all has been. Maybe it was always going to happen, maybe it even needs to for a new and better equilibrium to be reached, I'm not sure. However, to all the people saying 'Relax. Stife and turmoil are constant. This'll all settle down.' I ask: What makes you so confident that you'll get to be one of the people who pokes their heads above the parapet once this has all blown over? All this change, unavoidable or not, is coming at a heavy price; and in an age of greater global interconnectivity than ever before, I don't think we should just sit back and relax in the knowledge that, at the moment, we're a long way away from it all.Moeez said:
Yes, a person who lived through WW2 or any of the dozens of proxy conflicts that were fought throughout the Cold War, might scoff at the crises of the moment. However, are we forgetting the millions of people who don't get to say they had it worse, because they didn't make it to the other side?
