I don’t want to just dump on things for cynicism’s sake, but I guess having seen roughly 30-40% of the US (and larger percentages in many medium-development countries) reject a vaccine that may actually save their life and not in the distant future but like, this year, I have a hard time imagining those people acceding to anything intended to stave off less personal threats if it involves the slightest personal compromise, or even if they just don’t feel like it. My prior assumption that this population (not just rabid Trumpies but including significant portions of other groups) would at least act in self-preservation has been shattered, and maybe I was naive, given the indifference to the depredations of gun violence and morbid obesity and alcohol-induced car deaths and so on, but I just don’t think there’s a vision that can take hold.
Perhaps it’s just that the culture wars are so deeply entrenched here. But I cannot imagine anything like unity of purpose emerging. It’s all we can do to keep from active warfare.
It looks like Brad has changed his mind on at least one important issue: whether human emotional and social labor would still be important. Farewell, o yoga instructor!
I don’t want to just dump on things for cynicism’s sake, but I guess having seen roughly 30-40% of the US (and larger percentages in many medium-development countries) reject a vaccine that may actually save their life and not in the distant future but like, this year, I have a hard time imagining those people acceding to anything intended to stave off less personal threats if it involves the slightest personal compromise, or even if they just don’t feel like it. My prior assumption that this population (not just rabid Trumpies but including significant portions of other groups) would at least act in self-preservation has been shattered, and maybe I was naive, given the indifference to the depredations of gun violence and morbid obesity and alcohol-induced car deaths and so on, but I just don’t think there’s a vision that can take hold.
Perhaps it’s just that the culture wars are so deeply entrenched here. But I cannot imagine anything like unity of purpose emerging. It’s all we can do to keep from active warfare.
It looks like Brad has changed his mind on at least one important issue: whether human emotional and social labor would still be important. Farewell, o yoga instructor!