As revealing and illuminating as a great crisis can be, as a massive distortion it can also produce equally sizable distortions in perception. Say, with the ongoing pandemic, everyone is talking about stimulus and vaccination, and boy, we've got a handle on the reigns again pal lets take this thing for a spin. The feeling of being locked down and under the boot of the virus is a palpable one, and one starts to huff and puff under such strain, and of course, the light begins to approach at the end of the tunnel, and one can't fire out of that long tomb quickly enough. As I've expressed before, it will be good if some of the danger dies down again, and things get a little better, and we get to do some nice things again, and strike while the iron is hot, carpe diem, etc. etc. But the memory of the low and the dark is a valuable one, especially concerning the how and the why, and whether it will be back.
