Hi TOK List,

  I share here three very different analyses regarding the current state of our country and globe.

The first offers a conservative, pro-American view that our way of life was going along fine. The ball games, the economy, the general prosperity were neglected by doomsayers and the critical noise of the media. It says we need to embrace that "success" and return to normalcy post virus:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/20/our-goal-must-be-a-total-return-to-normal/

The second argues that there were many "pre-existing conditions" that were afflicting our country and the virus simply revealed them. We are struggling, our institutions are failing us, and we need a return to sane governance and good policies that create a much more stable, well-functioning system:
https://medium.com/the-atlantic/we-are-living-in-a-failed-state-8fff80f2dc89

The third is more radical. It is an interview that includes TOK Society member Zak Stein and invites us to consider our global trajectory to be deeply and existentially misguided. The message here is that we need to seize the Kairos of the moment and reassess our fundamental values and metaphysics and re-emerge with fundamentally new sense and meaning making systems and new ways of being in the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_c2-Bs1BqM

Best,
Gregg

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