What’s pending

. . . is devolution from this insanity:

But the reversal/devolution/transition will take a long time and it will be characterized by disparate reactions . . . including a good deal of malaise as the notion of progress recedes.

Some enlightened sentiments and strivings. Currents of greening, currents of socialism, currents of nationalism, currents of religious fundamentalism. Some re-tribalization in the best sense and some re-tribalization in the worst sense.

Pentecostalism Is Becoming the New Religion of the Global Poor

The crop of young South African preachers in colorful shirts and slick suits found a willing audience in millennials, who grew up in the glow of post-Aparthied optimism only to be horribly let down. They were promised the lot, and instead found themselves in the world’s most unequal society, with 75 percent youth unemployment, more than 80 percent of the country lacking medical insurance, and a failing education system. South Africa’s problems may be extreme, but in almost every corner of the globe, the pattern is repeating itself.