COVID-19 will leave the world with massive damage in its wake. Economically, we could well face a global depression. With other problems added to the mix, including environmental catastrophes, mass starvation, wars, state failures, ignorance, hatred, and despair, the outcome becomes devastating.

For a part of humanity, there will be depression, a sense of impotence, paralysis, and nihilism and, at the extreme, living in the endless violence of Hobbesian war of "all against all", with lives that are "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."