I can't believe that this is all happening. That this collective hysteria did lead to such incompetent, rushed decisions by the political class. Looking back, I realize how fragile freedom really was. Below the thin layer of civilization lies the barbarism of totalitarianism, and all it took for it to show its true face was a well treatable virus with a death rate of less than 0.5 percent for those with preconditions.
I look at the rest of our daily privileges that we call a civilization, like access to clean water, sufficient supply of food and shelter, and the basic rule of law. All those luxuries we take for granted, just like basic freedom until 2019, and all those things are just as fragile.
I firmly believe that technology progresses, but humans do not. Because we hold smartphones in our hand and know how to use computers, modern humans have become arrogant in their belief that equipping oneself with advanced technology would also translate into being an advanced human being. The liberal obsession with technology and the technocratic influence of our times are a telling sign of this fallacy.
Far from it, we are the same evolved monkeys from the stone and middle ages, and just because we can drive cars and use a phone doesn't change a single thing about ourselves.
For this reason I believe that history repeats itself in recognizable patterns. As someone else on this forum has addressed so well, the era between 1945 and 2019 was an exception is history, a lucky break in the violent history of the human animal. I realize that the era of relative freedom is coming to an end. Maybe the boomers were the luckiest generation in the history of mankind.
The last decade of the 2010s reminds me a bit of the roaring 1920s. A late stage liberal society that was free but morally bankrupt, which in turn led to the bloodshed of world war 2. I think that the 2020s of our time will be a time of the violent struggle between totalitarianism and the free individual, just like in the 1930s in Europe. And because those who seek to implement totalitarianism have given themselves the name of liberals instead of fascists, they will do the exact same thing as the fascist leaders of 1930s Europe.
And there is no way to stop it, no way to stop humans from inflicting this tragedy upon themselves again. I am looking for a sign of hope, a single calm voice of reason in a sea of hysterical cries, and I can not hear a thing. I try not to hold on to the luxuries of our fragile civilization, and anyone who has an ounce of free will inside themselves will soon enough learn to appreciate the most basic of all human instincts: the will to survive.
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