Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. For the first time in the history of the world, all of humanity, informed by the unprecedented reach of digital technology, has come together, focused on the same existential threat, consumed by the same fears and uncertainties, eagerly anticipating the same, as yet unrealized, promises of medical science.
In a single season, civilization has been brought low by a microscopic parasite 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. COVID-19 attacks our physical bodies, but also the cultural foundations of our lives, the toolbox of community and connectivity that is for the human what claws and teeth represent to the tiger.
And greedy leaders use it as an opportunity for genocide.
Ohferpetessake, other countries, even states like NY & CT, have weathered this storm due to good leadership!
All we need do is get rid of OrangeIdiot & his ilk!
November cannot come soon enough!
Well, yes, but it was the final nail in the coffin, so to speak. Had American political, legal, electoral and financial institutions been healthy, and US Democracy real rather than the sham which it really is, then we wouldn't be reading articles like this. It seems everything in our age occurs in real time and before our eyes, including the decline of empires. I fear for the future however, with the US increasingly joining the alliance of authoritarianism in the world. Even if Biden wins I doubt his capacity, or his party's, to reverse the tide, and the forces of authoritarianism behind Trumpism will reinvent, regroup and plot. American exceptionalism seems to have evolved into the American tragedy.
Primarily because of our leadership
Throwing that term "leadership" around loosely, are ya?
American exceptionalism may have existed in distinct historical moments, but it never could have existed indefinitely. That is a silly myth at best and militaristic nationalism at dangerous worst. Who are (we) Americans to define/determine for the world what is exceptional? What do exceptionalists know for scientific fact about themselves? Rather than being scientific, exceptionalists probably rate everything/everyone as either perfect or less than perfect, which sets up an unreal dualism. It would be good for this nation to mature beyond the notion that America/Americans are superior in anything and everything to other nations. How arrogant and conceited !