If we are trying to imagine what our societies will look like after the pandemic, we should avoid the field of futurology, which ignores our ignorance in the first place. Future research is the systematic prediction of the future, whereby this view into the future is based on current social trends. And this is exactly where the problem lies: futurology derives its predictions primarily from current trends. However, it fails to consider historical “miracles”, radical breaks that can only be explained in retrospect.
Life after Corona: A "Great Reset"? Yes, gladly - but please in real life!
2021-01-22T06:23:02.114Z
Some conspiracy theorists believe that political and economic elites are using the pandemic to radically overturn our living conditions. Actually a good idea, thinks the philosopher Slavoj Zizek. But the great upheaval should have no resemblance to what the paranoid imagines.
Source: welt