glatt wrote:
Did Covid make everyone just not care? I include myself in that. I find myself feeling that way.
Covid was part of a triple-quadruple whammy. We watched our society's disinterest in intellectual knowledge present a real and present danger (more immediate than the inevitable climate collapse that we're all stuffing deep down into the back of our mind). At the same time, we watched holders of the levers of power in government/industry literally not care if forcing people to go to work threatened their lives. But there was a glimmer of hope--while we were paused from our normal routines, we took notice of social problems and started a protest movement.. which was loudly shouted down by an enthusiastic culture of police worship. Meanwhile the fascist movement we fought a world war to conquer came roaring back into the mainstream, wreaking permanent havoc on our institutions. Everything is twice as expensive, and billionaires are getting 50 times richer. And to top it all off, the dumbest public figure of all time, a genuinely bad person, has been re-elected (possibly permanently). Oh, and the richest man in the world infiltrated every government database and downloaded every existing piece of information about everybody. It's a bad movie plot.. how are we supposed to be mentally engaged with this? The answer "what would you have done if you were there when the Nazis rose to power?" is finally understood. Complain, to no effect.
Last edited by Flint (11/03/2025 3:27 pm)
