I think you're missing something important about the response to COVID-19 and vaccination.
We are not going back to the status quo ante pestis; 2020 is a year which divides all human history, much as 1912 does. (The year the Royal Navy went to all-oil propulsion as a policy.)
If we -- collectively, in the public square -- admit it; that t…
I think you're missing something important about the response to COVID-19 and vaccination.
We are not going back to the status quo ante pestis; 2020 is a year which divides all human history, much as 1912 does. (The year the Royal Navy went to all-oil propulsion as a policy.)
If we -- collectively, in the public square -- admit it; that there is absolutely no recoverable normal, that all of us old enough to remember the last years of the Holocene are going to go forward into a future where we are strangers to every place, for every place has become strange, then the question of "what should the future look like?" gets asked, as it must be asked.
The "everything is normal normal normal" vaccination falsehood is the panic of people who (mostly) absolutely know better but, obviously and evidently, fear death less than they fear the future.
The experiment has been done; the mammonist policy of "live with it", "protect the economy", "bulldoze the corpses", costs more in purely mammonite terms than the more humane "extirpate it" policy. If that doesn't falsify mammonism (of course it doesn't) you have to admit that you're ruled by an apocalyptic death cult which absolutely wants you to die. (Arguably, wants you to suffer eternally.)
The people not getting vaccinated are doing it out of allegiance to a thing. That thing is not Donald Trump; that thing is not, precisely, the Republican Party. Donald Trump didn't take over the GOP; white evangelicals took over the GOP. They were just willing to accept Trump as a messiah.
Much as modern Christianity became an imperial religion post-Constantine and became something unrecognizable to its prior existence (this has happened repeatedly; Charlemagne, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, the British Empire, and the American Empire missionary culture in the mid-20th are all previous examples), American Evangelicalism is a further imperial reimagining, only instead of a discernable state it's about the necessary and inescapable rule of white americans, over everything, forever.
They think that includes viruses; they are determined that it must include viruses. One or two facts admitted and the whole edifice collapses.
Some combination of addressing the (admittedly terrifying) future combined with a relentless introduction of facts will do fine as policy. Feels make terrible policy; much regard for the feels of the people doing their dead level best to sacrifice you to some god as is not yours would seem to approximate an entire madness.
Which is why I think it is very important ever to use the word “white” in description. There are Americans. There are right wing evangelicals. Is there a right wing Southerners. They are right wing rural dwellers. “White” is not a thing—If it becomes a thing, we are in bigger trouble than otherwise
Oh, but it is a thing, and it can't be extirpated, though it can be replaced.
Ethnogenesis to produce something _not solely_ the easily sunburned can identify with, which is of economic and social benefit to be seen to join, will work. I don't think trying to remove white from the lexicon could possibly; if the loot sharing agreement can survive running out of loot, it's not obvious there's any direct way to kill it.
(As editorial policy, sure; don't use the word. But that's not more than maybe helpful, like asking easily sunburnt people what they are when they're not white.)
I think you're missing something important about the response to COVID-19 and vaccination.
We are not going back to the status quo ante pestis; 2020 is a year which divides all human history, much as 1912 does. (The year the Royal Navy went to all-oil propulsion as a policy.)
If we -- collectively, in the public square -- admit it; that there is absolutely no recoverable normal, that all of us old enough to remember the last years of the Holocene are going to go forward into a future where we are strangers to every place, for every place has become strange, then the question of "what should the future look like?" gets asked, as it must be asked.
The "everything is normal normal normal" vaccination falsehood is the panic of people who (mostly) absolutely know better but, obviously and evidently, fear death less than they fear the future.
The experiment has been done; the mammonist policy of "live with it", "protect the economy", "bulldoze the corpses", costs more in purely mammonite terms than the more humane "extirpate it" policy. If that doesn't falsify mammonism (of course it doesn't) you have to admit that you're ruled by an apocalyptic death cult which absolutely wants you to die. (Arguably, wants you to suffer eternally.)
The people not getting vaccinated are doing it out of allegiance to a thing. That thing is not Donald Trump; that thing is not, precisely, the Republican Party. Donald Trump didn't take over the GOP; white evangelicals took over the GOP. They were just willing to accept Trump as a messiah.
Much as modern Christianity became an imperial religion post-Constantine and became something unrecognizable to its prior existence (this has happened repeatedly; Charlemagne, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, the British Empire, and the American Empire missionary culture in the mid-20th are all previous examples), American Evangelicalism is a further imperial reimagining, only instead of a discernable state it's about the necessary and inescapable rule of white americans, over everything, forever.
They think that includes viruses; they are determined that it must include viruses. One or two facts admitted and the whole edifice collapses.
Some combination of addressing the (admittedly terrifying) future combined with a relentless introduction of facts will do fine as policy. Feels make terrible policy; much regard for the feels of the people doing their dead level best to sacrifice you to some god as is not yours would seem to approximate an entire madness.
Which is why I think it is very important ever to use the word “white” in description. There are Americans. There are right wing evangelicals. Is there a right wing Southerners. They are right wing rural dwellers. “White” is not a thing—If it becomes a thing, we are in bigger trouble than otherwise
Oh, but it is a thing, and it can't be extirpated, though it can be replaced.
Ethnogenesis to produce something _not solely_ the easily sunburned can identify with, which is of economic and social benefit to be seen to join, will work. I don't think trying to remove white from the lexicon could possibly; if the loot sharing agreement can survive running out of loot, it's not obvious there's any direct way to kill it.
(As editorial policy, sure; don't use the word. But that's not more than maybe helpful, like asking easily sunburnt people what they are when they're not white.)