Speaking on a World Economic Forum panel, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, admits to having prior knowledge in 2019 that there would be a "pandemic" in 2020. "Moderna had made 100,000 doses in 2019, for the whole year. And I remember walking, after Davos, into the office of my head of manufacturing and I said "how will we make a billion doses next year?", and he looked at me a bit funny and said "what?". I said "yeah, we need to make a billion doses next year, there's going to be a pandemic.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1685652105590099969
Fauci said that Trump would deal with a pandemic, to a convention of Doctors months before the pandemic started.
—-(Can the human search for the divine and the person’s go- between for meaning – that is, through beauty, and the arts – become a diaconal spirituality? Or as Dostoevsky puts it, can the beauty we find, acknowledge and create, truly “save the world”? )—https://voegelinview.com/the-drama-of-diakonia/
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https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/western-cultural-fatigue/
In the wake of industrialization’s exuberant optimism on behalf of modernity, the reactions first appeared when it was apparent that many important social issues remained unsolved.
Modern existence with its scientific and technological progress solved some problems, but the hectic urban life and break with the old collective family structure and its traditions created new difficulties.
The French sociologist Emil Durkheim wrote at this time the book. Durkheim’s initial goal was to investigate the reason behind the many suicides in modern states. After thoroughly studying the phenomena, he reached an unpleasant conclusion.
Especially in Protestant countries where the worldly process had made greater strides than in Catholic countries, he found disturbing trends in society. The strain on an individual’s identity inflicted by the dissolution of traditional family structures and social frameworks leads to what Durkheim termed anomie.
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https://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Tech/TechGend.htm
The concern Gabriel Marcel had with regard to technique or technology is how the condition created by the spirit of technology could become detrimental to the flowering of humanity and work adversely against the aspiration of the person toward its fulfillment in being. What is at stake for Gabriel Marcel is the natural vocation of the human person open to a spiritual life and with an orientation toward transcendence. The issue is a metaphysical one requiring a commitment to the whole of the person as an embodied spirit functioning in and through its material external condition and its internal spiritual exigency. The need is to establish a balance sheet recognizing our achievements in creating a better worldly life through the progress of technology and our prospects for an enrichment of our being with a fuller personal life.
But keeping in mind the devastating results of the techniques of degradation at work in Nazi concentration camps and in the waging of wars in our century, one should be wary of the progress of technology because of its possible dehumanizing and depersonalizing effects on the private and public life of human beings. The approach of Gabriel Marcel is a cautionary one warning about the dangers involved in allowing technology to take over the culture and to thus reduce the human person to the status of being a "mere technical man." His negative criticisms are not intended to reject technology and to seek to destroy it. He continuously reminds his readers of the positive contributions of technology. In itself, technology serves an invaluable purpose in making life more pleasant, more humane, and safer. (11) The danger comes from the fallouts connected with technology which place the integrity of the human being at risk.
Those contribute by comment or kind gift in the java space enable conditions to overcome my anomie. Thanks.
https://ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity.