Mark Leonard

The tragedy of our generation is that the forces that have united humankind are also dividing us and threatening to destroy us.

When I was a child we would compare our experience to our neighbours’ or our parents’ lives – but nowadays every aspect of our existence can be benchmarked against (sometimes fictionalized) depictions of the most privileged and successful people in the whole world. How can our lives ever match up to those standards? The result is permanent resentment.