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[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

"This was never about stopping a pandemic. Even the lockdown advocates never advocated that. But somehow that has been forgotten and '15 days to flatten the curve' has turned into a never-ending carte blanche for the biosecurity state to implement any number of draconian policies on its population, any number of policies on the checklist of the would-be dictator. Not only locking people inside their own homes, but constant surveillance of the population through the contact tracing and tracking apps that are increasingly being implemented around the globe, and, inevitably, the proposals for mandating the experimental vaccines which agents of the state will forcibly inject into people against their will.

This is not acceptable.

We cannot allow this to stand.

If we forsake this, our most basic right—the right to step foot outside of our own homes—then we forsake our humanity itself. An important part of what makes us human is being taken away from us in the name of stopping the spread of COVID-19."


This is the heart of it. Individual curiosity, action, and agency is the very meaning of being human. Authors for decades have written about precisely this extermination of the individual. Kafka probably did it best. It is now happening globally. It's shocking to watch how many people cheer on the destruction of the very things that make our species beautiful (despite all our flaws) precisely in the name of the evil we claim to fight.

The virus is killing very little of us alongside very few of us. The evil we are permitting in response to the virus - on the other hand - is spiritual suicide.

Each of us needs to face the danger from this virus with our heads held high and accept that maybe Covid will get us; maybe it will even end our physical life. But even in that very unlikely event, at least we would die beautiful in our complete humanity, fighting to the end as a Person, rather than the Insect Kafka so brilliantly described in "The Metamorphosis".

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

They don't want humans.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's funny how thought moves in tandem...

Ephemeral's comment on this thread beats me to my response to you.

First, I think to myself the same thought that you have expressed here many many times per day.

But the counter-thought - which Ephemeral gets at - is who are "they"? Where is the line drawn between "we" and "they"? At the very least, speaking for myself, "we" are complicit in our tolerance thus far with how far this has been allowed to go.

This line is very hard to draw.

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Point well taken.

But part of the problem is that (on this plane of reality anyway) a response demands collective action, but the laws of probably suggest that collective action is unlikely. "They" (whoever they are) know this, they are adept at measuring the effects of their moves and being able to project outcomes.

But on another plane...