Josh Urban’s book, Cities on a Hill: 21 Isolated Months with the Elderly during COVID, was prominently displayed near the front of the store as a welcome anomaly after searching for books by anyone exploring what we have endured.
Reality engineering requires three components: institutional power to create the narrative, social pressure to enforce it, and the deliberate persecution of anyone who challenges either. The Covid era revealed how performative activism serves as this machinery’s most potent enforcement mechanism.
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The path forward is for us to abandon the outdated dichotomies through which we formerly interpreted politics and the world and instead turn our attention to how to make the world more and more human and less and less inhuman.
Snow White opened with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. It’s fascinating to reflect on how this film got caught in the cultural crosshairs. To understand it, we need to return to 2020 and the lockdowns.
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The discursive norms on LinkedIn are a convention, a social practice, a type of theater for the purposes of financial gain. The dialect is an artifice. Corporate Pollyannaism is unconcerned and often contemptuous of the truth.
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When reading In Covid’s Wake, it becomes immediately clear that its authors, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, have very little curiosity, never mind understanding, of the immense body of superb research produced outside the academy during the past five years.
Dismembered European corpses and terrorized children are just part of maintaining this ideological purity. War is acceptable once more. Let’s hope such leaders and ideologies can be sidelined by those beyond Europe who are willing to give peace a chance.
The world has changed in many ways since March 2020. And the world needs to change a lot more, especially our human institutions, if we are to prevent the tyranny of Covid from being repeated.
We reject Canadian deference to authority. We refuse to be subjects any longer. Whenever government becomes destructive of liberty, says the American Declaration of Independence, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. Or to depart.
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These days remind one of the experience in Kabul, Afghanistan, following the US invasion in 2002. When the troops landed, the Taliban was nowhere to be seen. US troops eventually fled in panic, and the Taliban runs Afghanistan today.
Many countries now face an aging population and declining childbirths. Too many infants still die unnecessarily before the age of five years. While Public Health experts communicate to focus on healthier future generations, declining health in young females is ignored.
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