03-16-2020, 02:34 PM
(03-16-2020, 02:17 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Thanks, John. I've been wondering about that.
To me this feels like a regeneracy, but I couldn't see a way for it to stretch more than months. But ten years would be enough. I'm not sure I can see us maintaining the restrictions for years, though.
American business has been pushing workers to the limit, expecting people to go to work even if sick. This virus forces a change in that pattern. If one has low-touch intellectual work one might still participate 'virtually' on-line.
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.
