Closer and closer to peak loon

A global milestone we are told, which from one perspective it is.

A new global majority: Half the world is now middle class or richer, study finds

For the first time, the majority of the world’s population is not poor or vulnerable to poverty and the middle class accounts for the globe's largest economic group

As of September, an estimated 3.8 billion people are now middle class or rich

However there is an obvious downside because the middle class is where most of our loons reside. It hardly merits spelling out, but increase the global middle class and we increase the global loon population. Universities, government, the wider public sector, charities, NGOs - middle class loons have many hiding places.

We are already familiar with climate looning, Strictly Come Looning, #Meloontoo, Loon Pride and a vast array of other loon-themed movements, all placing an increasing burden on our fragile collective sanity.

Inevitably one becomes aware of a looming monster, the possibility that the world is rapidly approaching an irreversible disaster - peak loon. A tipping point beyond which there is only madness and chaos.