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Covid reshaped society on a scale unseen since World War II - but instead of sparking cultural transformation, it left fear, obedience, and a troubling silence in its wake.
Schelling saw nature not as object but as subject - a creative force we belong to, not command. His vision may be the ecological imagination our age lacks.
From Janis Joplin’s taste in men to apartheid’s brutality, not all discrimination is the same. So why does modern law treat every private choice as a public offence?
Why is liberal democracy so powerless against the rise of Trumpism and the new authoritarian right? Because liberalism itself has hollowed out meaning creating the very vacuum strongmen now fill.
