Without Sanity Ye Die

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My specific situation is quite different than most. This Covid moment is grist for fiction. And satire. And philosophy. And an amazingly well written if I say so myself made for TV comedy,

So as I submit to markets and starve slowly day by day I amuse myself. I take the 100,000 year view.

100, 000 years seems a long long long time to be proven right by some obscure tentacled scholar but in my dream it was so.

Everyone else who dreamed of everlasting Amerika was wrong. Department of Sociology, The University of Auckland, Level 9, HSB Building, 10 Symonds Street, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand; j.oleson@auckland.ac.nz; Tel.: +64-937-375-99

Academic Editor: Bryan L. Sykes

Received: 14 June 2016; Accepted: 20 October 2016; Published: 25 October 2016

Abstract: In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement exercised considerable influence over domestic US public policy. Positive eugenics encouraged the reproduction of “fit” human specimens while negative eugenics attempted to reduce the reproduction of “unfit” specimens like the “feebleminded” and the criminal. Although eugenics became a taboo concept after World War II, it did not disappear. It was merely repackaged. Incarceration is no longer related to stated eugenic goals, yet incapacitation in prisons still exerts a prophylactic effect on human reproduction. Because minorities are incarcerated in disproportionately high numbers, the prophylactic effect of incarceration affects them most dramatically. In fact, for black males, the effect of hyper-incarceration might be so great as to depress overall reproduction rates. This article identifies some of the legal and extralegal variables that would be relevant for such an analysis and calls for such an investigation.

This is from the perspective of the “believer” who must endlessly resist the action of what Weil calls “imagination which fills the void.” 

She says that “religion insofar as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith.”

The Italian philosopher Agamben has written -

"A country that decides to give up its own face, to cover the faces of its citizens with masks everywhere is, then, a country that has erased all political dimensions from itself. In this empty space, subjected at every moment to a control without limits, individuals now move in isolation from each other, having lost the immediate and sensitive foundation of their community and being able only to exchange messages directed to a faceless name; to a name without a face any longer. https://ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity