In what directions do societies move after major disasters? This is the theme of a research project that the Mapungubwe Institute has initiated. The research deals with local and global experiences as we emerge from the Covid pandemic and have to ...
The third broad direction is one of reformation and renaissance.
An appropriate interpretation or a misreading of factors that led to the disaster and of conditions before the disaster – and debate on how society can embark on a better path – influence the direction in which societies move.Humanity as a whole is grappling with these issues at various levels of intensity in the post-Covid era.
Acontextual presentism also includes an approach that underplays the fact that, for over two years, Covid scuppered many of the plans to deal with declining per capita growth and State Capture. However, failure to recognise the progress made since the attainment of democracy and the efforts since 2018, including during and after the Covid pandemic, can have the effect of questioning the very utility of the democratic dispensation.
And also ask whether Transnet would be experiencing paralysing problems with locomotives and spare parts due to the standoff with the state-owned ChineseWhat is the lesson from this? It is that, if the global tensions are not resolved – and if Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 warning about the womb that bore the beast of war comes to pass in the current age – the machinations are bound to become more ruthless.
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