03-22-2020, 10:32 PM
I expect people to react to the quarantine exactly as their generational types suggest that they would. I expect Boomers to use it for a renewed voyage to the Interior for the lack of anything better to do, X to turn to their entrepreneurial tendencies to offer entrepreneurial solutions, and Millennial adults to establish new mass norms.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.