'Admitting that ‘nobody’s free until everybody’s free,’ countries must send much needed material to those in need, such as Turkey has done for Italy and Spain, China is doing for the US, and everyone left standing will soon have to do for India.'
Individuals can be remarkably resourceful. In his 2008 novel, ‘City of Thieves’, David Benioff’s protagonist is tasked with finding a dozen eggs for a leading communist party apparatchik amidst the hellish four-year Siege of Leningrad, during which much of the city’s population perishes from hunger. Though he finds the eggs, he nearly dies in the attempt.
Though telecommuters are a privileged minority growing scarcer by the day, governments have a thing or two to learn from their most mobile citizens. To cope in the post-Covid landscape, states must mimic the privileged few. What they need is a new cosmopolitanism. The new cosmopolitanism is agile, creative, and quick to respond to challenges. It relies on friends in far places and forges new ones close at hand.
War, as Randolph Bourne wrote, is the health of the state. But it’s also a litmus test of existential fitness. Now that we’re up against a biological time bomb without borders, our leaders must see for the forest for the trees. After all, for every butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon, there is an overworked Polish or Pakistani epidemiologist laboring in a Swiss or German lab to save Manila and Minneapolis from perdition. If we are to make it to the Tokyo Summer Olympics with any semblance of civilization intact, the fruits of their labor must be shared. While the rest of us pontificate in our pyjamas, we must also prepare for the second salvo of our collective salvation: the dawn of a new provincialism.
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