Dont forget the upcoming end of this year world famine (not in the news yet). Way too little fertilizer was produced to to gas pricing since autumn last year. (i think)

yes I've stopped seeing news about what you call the impending WWIII.

"I'm not seeing it" is very much different from "nothing is happening". I'm seeing things happening all over the place.

What's frustrating, perhaps, is that nothing is getting resolved. Neither the pandemic nor the Ukraine invasion are resolving, and may not do so for months to years. It's frustrating. It's not the same as "nothing is happening", though.

Time seems to be slowing down. The 'now' seems to have bloated far into the past. Events come but they never seem to go away anymore. At the same time the future seems to have frozen into a permanent stasis of potentiality, morphing and shifting with the vicissitudes of our ever enlarging now, but never achieving actuality as nothing ever resolves. The experiential quality of what was once a 'moment' seems to be stretched over days. All that happens today is best described in short-burst swalls of jargon, and eludes any deeper analysis. Long-form is an anachronism. Experiential content has shifted to the language of functionality and so the richness of life is lost. Our symbolic systems seem to envelope us like a slow-motion time field.

I wrote this in 2019...