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Ad executive, a tech executive pulls levers that lead to removal of compassion, community, self determination inner calm from the lives of ordinary people; to casually work for a corporate surveillance firm — and what else is Facebook or Google for instance? — is to commit a subtle evil in the name of technological progress.
We’ve entered a new age of conspicuous consumption of information, where inside of acquiring status goods — bigger cars and bigger houses — we acquire status information, newsified concepts.
The body is the field upon which the soul expresses itself.
So, because COVID ideology represents a suppression and repression of the body, it also represents an attack on the soul and soulfulness.
This is what’s so fascist about certain technological modes of life — technological solutions to the problems of life.
They deny interiority — hurt us, herd us, into collectivities, into collective modes of thinking and being which completely override our own individual impulses.
