The time of the current Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic will become one of the key moments and a major factor that divides and characterizes epochs of history. The post-Coronavirus world will be very different than before, or you could say that it will be markedly distinct from it in structure and features. In this sense, the Coronavirus moment resembles—or almost resembles—other major moments in the past, which became reference points from a historical perspective. Accordingly, it is similar to developments such as the Fall of the Roman Empire; the launching of the religious reform movement and the religious wars that ensued; the rise of the capitalist order and its expansion around the world; the French and Bolshevik revolutions; the two World Wars, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Socialist Bloc; and finally the birth of globalization. Similarly, it is a key moment in history by way of which the...
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