In the last 3 years the world has been presented with three large crises namely Covid, Climate and the Conflict in Ukraine.
In each case, national policy responses continue to be dictated by heavily centralized unelected institutions such as the WHO, UN and NATO and for each crisis, an inarguable collective virtue is invoked in order to illicit public buy-in, namely a concern for public health, existential ecological considerations and human empathy for a war-torn people in the face of an 'unprovoked aggressor'.