Wealth inequality increases, the rich get richer, the poorer only advance very little if at all. There is no leadership that tries to pull us together.
Trade wars have come to replace military wars, no Westerner gets killed directly, but all (most) lose out.
This is the macro level.
At a micro, personal level, I sense the same thing. People retract to their immediate family. Meeting up gets more difficult, happens less. Micro-families ‘escape’ to far-away destinations (now that they still can) or retract to their cave. Not all, but more than before. Couples break up, stress everywhere.
Or is it just me?
People are confused, left alone by politics, angry and longing for past certainties that have gone for sure. Nostalgia for past empires overshadows a sense of reality. Nationalism takes over.
Russia, Turkey and Asia are starting to fill the void that we are opening.
How to prepare for that?