Amid the daily horror show in the Middle East is the realisation the so-called adults in the room are insane or powerless or just as bewildered as you are
That funny feeling is back – the one many of us felt at the start of the Covid pandemic, where we had to absorb and accommodate things that once seemed unimaginable.
That funny feeling that doesn’t have a name is part dread, part horror, part captivation as you watch through your phone at whatever this is unfolding.
It’s the sensation of living through a highly dynamic time in history, being swung about by time’s paw. It’s a hang-on-to-your-hat kind of feeling, where you don’t quite know how things are going to land.
It’s waking up – sometimes at 3am – to check social media or news websites to see if nuking another country has been casually threatened on Truth Social.
