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When will someone be willing to say that it’s better to risk death than to stay at home in this digital absurdity? — in this trash existence, cognitively cognitively worn out, , emotionally empty, without taste scrolling through Twitter like an idiot. We have no fear of the void: we seem to actively enjoy creating it. Too many people have bound up their identities their sense of self worth and their deployment of this new mode of knowledge and style of living.
You must have lost the meaning of Being if a hug terrifies you, or if you’d rather be a sociopath in a mask than a living creature.
COVID is a firewall between us and everything that doesn’t resemble us; the corny quarantine was a chance for us to wash away our memories of that other life — the one before the total domination of the screen.
Even though Corona viruses are clearly seasonal and even though we knew that politicians and experts still tried to pretend that coronavirus could be controlled — and has been controlled.
Even after all cause deaths are still below average, we will still be living in fear.
Even on paper, the conclusion that none may be allowed to live freely as long as some are dying is…
