#creativity

I have become more fearful and less optimistic; perhaps due to the COVID 19 pandemic; perhaps because of global warming, the rise of autocratic regimes, the rise of inequality, the lack of privacy; perhaps due to the manipulation and hatred created by out-of-control social networks in so many places around the world. Day after day the news is filled with stories designed to scare us, because fear always sells (as does sex). News media exist to make money − a fact not always compatible with accurate news reporting.  The pandemic has made our world smaller, more isolated; we did not evolve to thrive on virtual contact, and so the lack…