Maybe this is what it is like to have a deep crisis of faith. A 3am thought woke me up the other day and I haven’t been able to get rid of it since. What if democracy is wrong? Not wrong in the sense that it is an ideal that everyone strives towards, but actually wrong-wrong?
A common truism is that young people think adults have it all figured out until they become adults themselves and realise that is fiction, and that with time it just gets easier to plod along dealing with whatever life throws at you.