We’re so close to being out of the woods. People are getting vaccinated and more and more governments are adopting “first doses first.”
All we have to do is to behave ourselves for a few more months.
But we’re not.
Read moreHow We Know the World is Unfair
“Life isn’t fair.”
I don’t know the first time I ever heard that but I was young.
If I asked you, “is life fair?” you’d probably answer “Of course not.”
And yet, most of us believe in the fairness of life to some degree or other, even if we would never admit it.
We believe in Karma, or we believe in meritocracy, or we believe in justice or we believe in the Invisible Hand, or we believe in (insert your mystical force here). And then many of us may reject justice here and now but believe that some kind of cosmic force will pay us back once we are dead.
Maybe you’re saying to yourself that you don’t believe any of this stuff, that you know life is unfair.
Are you sure you don’t believe life is fair?
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