The TLS used to be full of educated analysis like this but I gave up on it in 2004 for a few reasons, the resort to American interns (I inferred) with no eminence in the field being one. That bloody Australian.

I haven't had my finger on the pulse, like you, but plainly, in this particular instance it is just a good educated guess/instance of where we are in the middle of having to consider our coexistence with the Universe. A human condition ..

Not sure what Ozzies have to do with this, in general : /