The symbolic gestures we love. Taught to us as important. Taught to us as making a difference. Horseshit.
Salvation by gesture, salvation by vaccine, salvation without crucifixion, salvation on the news installment plan, soon to be above the fold on the daily fishwrap, on covers of leading thought publications like Rolling Stone or Parade magazine, or hold your breath in hope-Playboy.
I have no solution. I critique other solutions. I admit any solution I postulate is strictly a personal choice in time of total madness. I instinctively reach for my history books and look under Pandemic Insanity and thumb to Citizen Protests, aside from buckets of blood and the very ominous Joker laughing hysterically no answers present. Out of curiosity, merely because Chinese Lunar New Year brings us the year of the Tiger and I have endless curiosity, I look up the closest “protest” that seems to resonate. Skipping 1968 and Dubcek, skipping the disturbances in the East Bloc, ignoring Tiananmen, lo the Boxer Rebellion looms large. https://www.facinghistory.org/nanjing-atrocities/nation-building/rebels-boxer-rebellion
My position frankly is maximalist and worse still I doubt any State power has legitimacy other than as a hostage taker. As a “necessary” evil like say an mRNA vaccine I say thanks but no, no, keep your flag and wave it higher and higher with gusto and joy, but please go away and stop cheering in my ear. No government wants me free. All governments hold firmly to a concept I reject out of hand as not applicable. I did not assent to their logic or their rules. As a free man I insist that no compact binds me unless I am fully informed and completely assent. Following Lysander Spooner I object to the rule of lawless governments. https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/spooner-on-the-difference-between-a-government-and-a-highwayman-1870
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Curious. I guess a settings issue.
BTW yours is one of the blogs on here where comments are not immediate.