This insecurity — where will I live? what will I do? — is not a new feeling for human beings, but it is certainly more intense for people today. If evicted, where would most of us go? What do we have to fall back on?
Protect The Institution
They blew it. All of them. Governments, global bodies, the “experts.” Glaring incompetence always undermines authority. As it should. But no one in authority — especially the incompetent — wants to give up the power that comes with it. Almost by instinct, institutions double down and try to make themselves even more indispensible to your life.