Guest Post by Dr. David Hilton
They’re gonna want explanations as their world falls apart
There’s a Chinese saying we’ve all heard about it being a blessing and a curse to live in interesting times or something similar. It’s the type of midwit profundity you might hear at the beginning of an ABC news program about the ‘Chinese threat’ in the Pacific, with ominous music and graphics.
It turns out that it isn’t a Chinese saying at all. Like most clever things in the modern world, it was invented by an Englishman.
We are living in interesting times, though. Lockdowns and shortages since 2020 have rattled the bars of the utopian Western mind prison we’d been living in since the Second World War. Idealism and self-indulgence had run rampant in the West since the 50s. We lived in a reality constructed by TV, movies and three-minute music hits.
That period of collective unreality is now ending.