Is Foucault turning in his grave? Reflections on the pandemic

At the moment of writing this the priceof petrol fell to -37$/barrel. These are strange times indeed when you’re wishing for petrol prices to go up!I don’t feel so –sociologically -imaginative right now. Maybe it’s because I was never really thatimaginative or simply because current times have depleted any imagination I might have had. And by ‘‘current times’’ I mean the whole decade –from the economic meltdown of 2009-10, to the refugee crisis of 2015-16 (which is still on), to the current pandemic crisis. So, I am setting out my ideas in the short presentation that follows from the standpoint of profound confusion (but not fear): in general, in my view, the most fundamental question is where are we heading? The point that I’m really trying to make is that this pandemic brought forward the intricacies of complex socio-economic systems coupled by their shortcomings and inadequacies.