The experts are back in charge, and the right guys are back on top. The image is situated back in its rightful place and everyone can go back to sleep, after having spent too long with the rightful perception that their hair was on fire in the midst of the chaos of the previous administration. The nagging sense that something was fundamentally wrong, that something had to fundamentally change, could be once again laid to rest and buried for now, albeit in a shallow enough grave.
Now there are some reasonable reforms being floated and even put into place. I certainly prefer things to get a little better in general for now, personally, as opposed to permanent crisis. But marginal improvement is not good enough. Things haven't been fundamentally changed, and it is even difficult to talk about what that might entail.
The next big crash can be staved off for a bit longer, but the sword of Damocles still looms - and what comprises that metaphor is a multitude of converging crises, none of which have been addressed in a meaningful way. We can let the faculties for profound action and change continue to atrophy, until they once again fail when they are most needed. But hopefully those of us paying attention can continue to do the work to prepare ourselves and others for what is on the horizon.
