A good reason why most post-pandemic predictions are wrong is two-fold:

1. Habit. We are entrenched in habits and long for normalcy in our bones. In our current state of emergency we are temporarily thrown out of habit into a possible woke state or believing in that we are awake when its another layer of illusion.
2. Addiction. We are addicted to being consumers for the most part. We are addicted to more. We are mainlining energy in ever increasing amounts.

Over population, climate crisis, and living in an illusory reality of infinite supply in a finite world is an economic driving force that permeates our lives everyday. These stresses have created C19.

To change this will mean a sacrifice of our current post-C19 world. But we aren’t prepared to do that. When the pandemic ends we will once again grow comfortable with our endless consumption and our collective belief that we continue to live in a democracy and not an oligarchy.

Our continued comfortable existence will be the death of us — sadly.