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Conventional wisdom has been internalized. The speed at which a new epistemology was build is astounding; the re-socialization of tens of millions of people who are now deathly afraid of the outdoors, of human faces, of small crowds. We’ve softened up — without resolve, satisfied with our ideology which tells us that it’s better to just wait it out and fuck anyone who disagrees (they must be Trump supporters). Even though surfaces struggle to transmit disease, we’re chloroxing them anyway and sanitizing our hands until the skin is dead and cracked. There’s something ugly and mousey about this kind of fear, which is not ugly because it’s animal fear, but because it’s animal fear dressed up as plain, democratic good sense — contempt for individuality masked as concern for the public good.
