36. Summer Edition - Social Fragmentation and the Great Seclusion

In this Summer Edition of The Burning Archive, Jeff Rich reviews the events of 2021 against the theme of social fragmentation. For so many people around the world, 2020 and 2021 have been the years of the Great Seclusion. How has the response to the pandemic fired social fragmentation and been fuelled by social isolation and loss of community? Can we chart a course to a more forgiving and tolerant Society of Islands in 2022?