Now is the moment to step back and make two unsettling observations that have been true for a while now:

• Despite all the many "solutions" being "scaled up" and acted upon at many levels, we are not on track to solve society's problems.
• Despite big societal gains in wealth, health and education over the past couple decades, and the emergence of "transformational" new technologies, society is not on track to solve our problems.

Amidst this present pandemic emergency, three unsettling suspicions come to the foreground:

• We suspect that the world will keep reeling from one immediate crisis to the next one, because somehow we always fail to gain the necessary wisdom from the last one to prevent the next one.
• We suspect that leaders are lost - and sometimes don't even know it. Leaders' responses to crisis always seem to show leaders doing the only thing they know how to do, rather than learning how to do what they do not.
• We suspect that "society" isn't as real as it should be. "Society" should be the level at which a sense of belonging and security and cooperation as part of the whole exists as a real thing in our lives, but for a lot of people it seems to be missing.