Corporate doublespeak. Disenfranchisement fuelled by expanding privilege gaps. Social media dug rabbit holes which promote conspiracy theories over critical thinking, leading to the breakdown of civil dialogue and the erosion of empathy.
Living in today’s increasingly chaotic world is not always fun, and when so many days feel like the bleak punchline to a joke Yórgos Lánthimos would tell, it’s hard not to think of the futility of human enterprise. Or surrender to the dispiriting prognosis that we, as parasites on an Earth we’re destroying, may deserve to reap the madness we’ve sowed.