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FT Weekend: How has lockdown changed us? Plus: a night on the Orient Express
FT News Briefing
The Human Capacity to Forget
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People don't like the idea of randomness being the force that governs life. They want there to be some kind of organizing principle, some kind of natural justice. Ei, that's why a lot of spiritualism exists. And i've got no problem with them believing that, or even espousing that. What i have a problem with is government policy in the coming years being shaped by those preferences. I'm curious to know, my big picture, how you think future us, in ten, 20 years time, are going to remember lock down as like a cultural event? My strong, strong suspicion is that we won't remember it. We won't talk about its.
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