THE global COVID-19 health crisis has shocked the world,making us all aware of the need for a major rethink of international relations,multilateral organizations,organized healthcare,poverty,sovereignty,and many other aspects of human society.However,this crisis did not occur in a healthy,prosperous,and comprehensible world.Had this been the case,we might have been more prepared,more united,and less rudderless in confronting it.Instead,it comes at the tail end of three major catastrophes in just over a decade.All have been disastrously disruptive,exacerbating inequality,marginalizing accountability,ridiculing and punishing solidarity,and upending the value systems that different peoples and societies have long upheld—if not exactly living by them,at least using them as a yardstick for their way of life.What all these crises have in common is the prominent global resurgence of two instruments of mass mobilization:fear and hate.
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