The Ideas of Our Times

What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true.

Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the trend towards world fascism, as the United States teeters on the edge of losing its democracy.

At this point, perhaps it’s a good thing that our focus is on solving the problems that loom so close and pose such horrific threats.