The old Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times” has never been more apt than right now: a staggering number of wars, invasions, migrations, revolutions, existential political struggles, riots, death threats, assassination attempts and more all rage globally. It is an increasing welter of unrest and turmoil that has been encapsulated by one researcher in the simplistic phrase “societal excitability”. It is as if the collective human id is releasing its darkest cargo all at once. This has been happening coincidently with beautiful but abnormally extensive light displays in our night skies–the aurora borealis and australis (Northern and Southern Lights)–sometimes reaching down to latitudes far below the usual polar zones. Signs and wonders indeed–but is their occurrence at about the same time as this concatenation of human events merely…
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