These are vexing times. And not just because we have been imprisoned by a virus. Economies have been shattered and people let down by their governments. Worse, the enormity of the pandemic has not brought the global community together to deal with what is, after all, the only actually global crisis in a century. On the contrary, the world has become witness to an equally unprecedented relapse into a Spencerian scramble for survival and domination.

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这些是令人不快的时代。不仅仅是因为我们被病毒囚禁了。经济已经崩溃，人们被他们的政府失望。更糟糕的是，这种流行病的严重性并未使全球社会团结起来应对毕竟是一个世纪以来唯一真正的全球危机。相反，世界已经见证了史无前例的史无前例的复发，陷入了斯宾塞式争取生存和统治的争夺战。