21-04-2023, 09:58 AM
I don't believe it has much to do with Covid, much more to blame on the new right economics, ie followers of roger douglas and richard prebble et al, (lower case deliberate) that was the start of the rot and has continued through each successive generation.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche