By Frank Wright February 8, 2022
‘ONE day the bottom a-go drop out’ said the 20th century sage Robert Nesta Marley. He was referring to a bucket, but he may as well have had our institutions, social, political, diplomatic, financial, in mind. For we have gone to the well and found the bucket is now a hole with a handle.
Covid simply revealed the degree of rot in our institutions, structures and polity and was not the cause of them. It may prove to offer them a lifeline, as ‘because of Covid’ has become one of these phrases you hear to mark the end of the conversation.