Whenever political and social upheaval occurs, William Butler Yeats’ famous poem The Second Coming (1919) immediately springs to mind. Are we at a moment in history where “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”?
Will anger at entrenched injustice, racism and other outmoded ideas sweep aside familiar institutions and replace them with something better? Are global arrangements that have been in place for decades being transformed as well? Is a desire to “move fast and break things” now the mantra for both local and global politics?
