Dear Cary,

What do you think about Covid and Black Lives Matter in terms of historical perspective? I think that the Black Death in the Middle Ages paved the way for the Renaissance. 

Is what we are going through (radical changes to social protocol) likely to result in a similar revolutionary change, and if so would future historians regard this change as a good or bad thing?

Just Wondering

Dear Just Wondering,

Pardon me while I hyperventilate into a paper bag. Seriously, you overestimate my abilities. In a nice way, I mean. But really. It hurts my brain. I mean, did the 1918 flu epidemic permanently alter human civilization? Did Joe Strummer and Mick Jones ever find their way out of the supermarket?

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