With theocracy, divine right, communism, and representative democracy all gone or greatly discredited, a sizable portion of the world's peoples now live under rulers with little plausible justification for their sovereignty.
Governments blaming a virus and/or those who refuse to live in fear of a virus for their own tyrannical policies is like an abuser blaming his victim: "I wouldn't have to hit you if you'd just act reasonable."
Like "code is law," "data-driven" policy determinations are a deflection from what are ultimately human decisions.
Losers stick together lol
We divide human drives into three groups: (1) those drives that can be satisfied with minimal effort; (2) those that can be satisfied but only at the cost of serious effort; (3) those that cannot be adequately satisfied no matter how much effort one makes.
...the more drives there are in the third group, the more there is frustration, anger, eventually defeatism, depression... In modern industrial society natural human drives tend to be pushed into the first and third groups...
Most aren't qualified to "do own research" on most topics. "Just trust experts" also not viable because of their bad incentives. Reporters have become pure political operatives and activists. Okay, Craig, guess I better get started learning everything.
The only thing worse is the ticktock dancing nurses.
This is one of the more disturbing developments, because it's hard to imagine it's in good faith.
