Is anyone else just a little tired of hearing about doom and gloom and an impending apocalypse? It’s been hard to avoid with media focus on the pandemic, its impact on the economy, and the tsunami of hardship, depression and anxiety swirling across the nation. We’re bombarded with daily images of bankrupt, dismal malls and empty big box retail sites repurposed into mass testing sites and now mass vaccination centers.
Even in conversations with friends and family, the repetition of comments about endless Zoom calls and despair about indistinguishable days blending together can accumulate into a sort of reinforcement of a dystopian view of life. After the last 13 months, apocalypse, collapse and chaos feel normal, right?
Except we’re forgetting some amazing facts.
Common mythologies
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