I'm trying to formulate for myself, as precisely as possible, The Foundational Questions of the Covid Age:
Covid's arrival brought two distinct crises to the world. One, the abject failure of social institutions to safeguard their citizens' health and rights. What may have begun with incompetence and corruption became outright criminality with lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Two, the mass insanity of the citizens themselves, who celebrated --even demanded-- those corrupt and criminal actions.
How did this begin? Did the people's mass insanity give license to institutional malfeasance? Did malevolent institutional actors somehow engineer the mass insanity? Or was there an independent factor behind both crises, perhaps a spiritual force?
Big Picture Questions
Covid's arrival brought two distinct crises to the world. One, the abject failure of social institutions to safeguard their citizens' health and rights. What may have begun with incompetence and corruption became outright criminality with lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Two, the mass insanity of the citizens themselves, who celebrated --even demanded-- those corrupt and criminal actions.
How did this begin? Did the people's mass insanity give license to institutional malfeasance? Did malevolent institutional actors somehow engineer the mass insanity? Or was there an independent factor behind both crises, perhaps a spiritual force?