I agree. I rarely bring it up. I have so few friends. In trying to save their health I trigger a strong reaction. I have really thought this through. I am nearly convinced that social pressure is stronger than self preservation. Agamben writes "if people have accepted the despotic measures and unprecedented constraints they have been subjected to without any guarantee, it is not only out of fear of the pandemic, but presumably because, more or less unconsciously, they knew that the world in which they had lived until then. it could not continue, it was too unfair and inhuman. It goes without saying that governments are preparing an even more inhuman, even more unjust world; but in any case, on both sides, it was somehow foreshadowed that the former world - as it is now beginning to be called - could not continue. There is certainly in this, as in every dark presentiment, a religious element. Health has replaced salvation, biological life has taken the place of eternal life and the Church, which has long been accustomed to compromising itself with worldly needs, has more or less explicitly consented to this replacement."
I agree. I rarely bring it up. I have so few friends. In trying to save their health I trigger a strong reaction. I have really thought this through. I am nearly convinced that social pressure is stronger than self preservation. Agamben writes "if people have accepted the despotic measures and unprecedented constraints they have been subjected to without any guarantee, it is not only out of fear of the pandemic, but presumably because, more or less unconsciously, they knew that the world in which they had lived until then. it could not continue, it was too unfair and inhuman. It goes without saying that governments are preparing an even more inhuman, even more unjust world; but in any case, on both sides, it was somehow foreshadowed that the former world - as it is now beginning to be called - could not continue. There is certainly in this, as in every dark presentiment, a religious element. Health has replaced salvation, biological life has taken the place of eternal life and the Church, which has long been accustomed to compromising itself with worldly needs, has more or less explicitly consented to this replacement."