03-23-2020, 09:40 PM
We will be learning many things -- basic things -- that we never thought that we would have to learn. How to put together human relationships that may have been in tatters. How to make the most of the communities in which we live no matter how flawed those may be. Finding the store shelves bare with an age of retail bargains at an end... and I am guessing, exorbitant prices as an adjustment to shortages. Much of our potential entertainment, mass low entertainment the current equivalent of Karl Marx' opiate of the masses. If you live in a rural area and are not highly-specialized, then welcome to the grim world of farm labor. A good pair of overalls might be more useful than any $1000 suit.
"No unnecessary travel" introduces a situation analogous to rationing. Gas suddenly got cheap -- but unless you commute you have no place to go. Looking for a job out of town? Lots of luck!
"No unnecessary travel" introduces a situation analogous to rationing. Gas suddenly got cheap -- but unless you commute you have no place to go. Looking for a job out of town? Lots of luck!
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.