Commentary
The years 2020–2022 should go down in history as an epically cataclysmic failure of the intellectuals. The intellectuals were put in charge of the levers of power and utterly wrecked the social and economic order all over the world, all in the guise of virus control.
Those who were not part of implementing destructive policies, but rather sat in the peanut gallery to assist in the formation of public opinion, failed to warn about the consequences of these actions, even though we had libraries of research that clearly predicted what a disaster would ensue.
The failures are ubiquitous but they were not only intellectual. They were also ethical, simply because those who knew better sat by in silence for reasons of professional and social survival. They eschewed the courage that is supposed to be part of the life of the mind in favor of a craven deference to authority….