07-10-2020, 10:23 PM
(07-10-2020, 10:15 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Dude, the American Revolution and American Civil War weren't peaceful events. I heard Woodstock occurred during a pandemic similar to the one we are dealing with today. Is that true or is my older sister a liar?
Different times, different Crises.
The epidemic related to the Boom Awakening was drug overdoses. Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison...
I'll say this: contracting COVID-19 is about as dangerous as using street drugs, something that I do not endorse. One typically shoots up, ingests, or freebases certain drugs which you cannot get from aerosols that someone coughed into the environment.
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.