The Coronavirus

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In most Crisis Eras, the Civic component is already shaping the political culture. What violates Civic values becomes a losing proposition. Thus irrationality, chaos, and inequality that one expects from an every-man-for-himseff ethos becomes unacceptable and unsupportable. Promoters of pseudoscience and superstition, divisiveness, and selfishness find themselves treated as pariahs. Much of America supported Donald Trump after he proved himself a near-antithesis of civic values. A high-0profile politician promoting medical quackery instead of creating an environment in which people are expected to get inoculated? Trump reminds me of the worst sort of Idealist, the sort who as an exploiter expects others (including those that he exploits) to see him as a benefactor.

Let us recall that Donald Trump exemplifies the worst characteristics (arrogance, selfishness, and ruthlessness) of an Idealist generation while being weak on culture,erudition, and principle. He may be decisive, but he is decisively wrong. He is as clear a Idealist as one can be as a type. He is not an open-minded, inclusive, sensitive Artist/Adaptive. He is in no way pragmatic or perceptive. Maybe he combines vices that one associates with Civic (his hubristic pride and lack of personal reflection), Adaptive (neuroticism), and the crass materialiism and amorality that one associates with Reactive/Nomad generations at their worst.

So how would I have dealt with COVID-19 had I been President? I would be pushing people to do what is necessary to protect their lives. I would see COVID-19 as an enemy to be crushed When prominent people start dying of a respiratory disease then we have a valid concern. I might get the wrong analogue for COVID-19 (HIV/AIDS), but I would get the social distancing, hand-washing, and mask-wearing right. America would be awash in anti-COVID-19 propaganda. I would have stayed clear of medical quackery. I'd be calling out people who deny COVID-19