So I feel it’s all inevitable. I don’t know what it will be, but we are entering a bad phase.
It will be unpleasant for those living through it, maybe even will unravel into being hellish and beyond imagination.
Humans will come out the other side, recover, and move on. The human race will be fine, changed, maybe better.
But for those at the sharp end — for the thousands of Turkish teachers who just got fired, for the Turkish journalists and lawyers in prison, for the Russian dissidents in gulags, for people lying wounded in French hospitals after terrorist attacks, for those yet to fall, this will be their Somme.