Community Lasting change is always built on common ground. Our current age of distrust grew out of four generational shifts that have been brewing over the last 50 years. Yet if we are ever going to be able to meet the challenges that face us today—and Covid-19 is only one of many—we will need to create a new sense of shared purpose. Greg Satell points out that Americans have done this before. In the 1930s and 40s, we faced a global depression, massive genocides and a world war that claimed the lives of 75 million people. Europe, once the center of western civilization, was in ruins, its people struggling to survive. Yet out of those ashes we built a new world order and a new social contract. He thinks we can do it again. Article: The Coronavirus Crisis Shows Why, If We Are To Solve Big Problems, We First Need To Rebuild Trust