Thank you Simon, this very much resonates with my own experience. I tried to make sense of this myself in two posts. I am experiencing not only this fogginess, but also a "silencing". It is as if this time calls for a profoundness I don't think I possess (a projection I know, but very real). In case you are interested, here are the posts:

https://medium.com/@sonjablignaut/the-strange-in-between-2f65d25eebd4

https://medium.com/@sonjablignaut/the-silencing-e1b4d678032

PS It wasn't that long ago that you were in SA training us on ANC. How quickly the world has changed!