We tend towards easy answers and simple and certain constructs that provide us with security and control in a world that often displays the opposite. But as Heidegger and many of the existentialist philosophers suggest, there comes a moment that the fears we all nurse in our everyday lives transform into what can be termed “angst” — that is an anxiety allied to our feeling of mortality and our encounter with the fact that we are “being towards death.” This should ideally trigger a search for authenticity. As I said, perhaps the “corona age” is humanity’s moment of “being towards death” and perhaps we have what to learn in coping with its fallout from our forefather Jacob.

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