The Ideological Purge

A New Epoch of Social Unrest

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It seems long ago now — especially in our fast evolving social and political landscape — but with the emergence of the pandemic (which many forget is still rampant) came a flurry of glimmering commentaries by optimists postulating that the pandemic would be the thing to finally elevate our consciousness — and save civilization from inevitable collapse. Naïvely, I hoped that…