09-24-2021, 01:59 PM
(09-24-2021, 10:30 AM)sbarrera Wrote: I think that, despite all the sound and fury, the anti-mask/anti-vax element is a minority and our society has for the most part been willing to comply with measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. I thought we adopted it quickly, and that this was a sign of us being in the 4T, even in early 2020. I remember being impressed by how readily people were following social distancing rules even in the spring of 2020, and going along with further measures like face masks required and limited numbers of customer in stores.
Now where I live in semi-rural Pennsylvania most of the folks are anti-maskers, and I am often the only one in a store who is wearing a mask, or in the small minority in a big box place like the WalMart (literally the only substantial retail outlet in my town). I suppose, in a way, this element is also 4T because they are united in their own version of *what must be done* - resist the tyranny of the Democrats, I think, is what they think they are doing, though I would say they are misguided. I live in a pretty well vaccinated state overall with relatively low Covid incidence (compared to hellholes like Florida) so I'd say this element is getting a "freedumb ride" thanks to living in a region with mostly sensible people.
The last-ditch supporters of a dying cause, the people who can't imagine some New Order in which much that they had fervent belief in is repudiated, the people with death-wishes... they can act with consummate fanaticism because they have nothing left to lose. Long into the summer of 1945, young Japanese men clamored for the opportunity to fly kamikaze missions -- missions that could only result in their deaths -- rather than acknowledge the inevitable defeat of Japan. Even someone not so young participated in such an attack upon the United States on August 15, 1945. Maybe refusing to get inoculated isn't quite so sure a way of death, but it seems similarly pointless.
Nothing so defines heroic winners and foolish losers as does the sudden transition from 4T to 1T. Obviously it is easy to predict prematurely an end to the Crisis Era. In 1940 it could have been Sir Winston Churchill found dead in the wreckage of the Map Room... or pulled out barely alive by SS brutes for exemplary punishment for resisting the Inevitable Victory.
The most obvious end will be for 3T assumptions that got us into the mess. We will end up in a very different world, one in which certain technologies, economic norms, and cultural practices become irrelevant.
I say to those resisting the inoculation: nobody will be putting any microchip into you to track your every move. (Use a cell phone, credit or debit card, or try accessing a bank balance, and you will be tracked if the legal system connects you to a missing person).
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.