Retrospect
An intransitive verb: to engage in retrospection, to refer back; or a transitive verb: to go back over in thought
Rudolph Rigger, in his 12/29 end-of-the year post titled, “God Bless the Time Lords”, reviews the travails of the years in COVID in his dependably humorous manner -- but also comes up with two very serious points about those years:
1. Those who benefited from this protracted episode of overreaction and near irrationality cultivated and projected fear onto others like they were repeatedly shooting them with an eternally loaded semi-automatic pistol; and,
2. The purported anti-COVID measures promulgated on the shirt tails of this continuously and violently imparted fear were not medically necessary, but were politically necessary.
Keeping in mind what we've all seen hopping around wildly and nakedly in broad daylight for the last 3 years, now take a retrospective look at the various big and little ‘scary’ events disturbing large parts of human society that occurred before what Rigger calls the Age of COVID (“AoC”). I'd say the Time Lords have granted us all a Rosetta Stone helpful for making much better sense of the great, fuzzy ball of chaos that surprisingly turns out to make up so much of human history and ongoing human life. Then, let us not stay stuck perpetually in the relaxing act of chewing the COVID cud, but now (and forever more) instead point our analytical and critical faculties at everything else that any fearmonger champions.