I can hardly wait for Biden’s speech on Tuesday of doom and gloom right before Christmas. What was it Patton said about Americans, and winners? Published in General Then there are people like Elon Musk, who point at a dot in the heavens and say FU Mars, we’re coming, whether you like it or not. They wish to be a cog in a perfect machine, perfectly regulated, perfectly programmed, perfectly harmonious, with all the non-meshing parts discarded in perfect perpetuity. But that assumes they really want to live at all, in the sense we commonly understand it, with all its messy human excesses and joys and mistakes and accomplishments. You could chide them: that’s no way to live. There’s nothing left to do but retreat into imaginary spaces and wait for the end, I guess. Which are now the enemy, because, well, technology, man. He types stuff.Īnd look at that climate-change background, all those instruments of planetary destruction that makes the sun burn hot with anger: two smokestacks, which probably have scrubbers that make the emissions rather anodyne, and three nuclear power plants. I doubt he drives the truck that fills up the gas station or brings fresh lettuce from California to a store in Iowa. But look who the author chooses as an example of someone who works: some bro-bun guy with a briefcase. The world would end if no one decided to work, because work makes our daily miracles possible. “As we know it.” Really? Is there no more electricity? Gasoline? No rockets thunder from earth into the sky? Food does not appear in the grocery store anymore? Water no longer comes from the tap? The radio dial is nothing but static? Previously they were angry because they were living in a capitalist hellscape that thwarted the one or two easy steps needed to move everyone to socialist utopia now it’s entered a new phase, a total uncoupling from reality: the daily lamentations of people trying to make their weeping heard above all others in the echo chamber. The joylessness and hectoring, angry, miserabilism of the left has reached neutron-star density, it seems. You thought Jimmy Carter’s speech was downbeat. Good thing the President and the media are shoveling coal into the boilers of despair with Stakhanovite zeal:Ī winter of death. I’m unhappy now, but I have a purpose: defeating COVID! People will think we can go back to the way it was. The assertion that Omnicron may turn out to end it all, inasmuch as it turns out to be mild and thus carries us into the endemic phase, is terrifying: it will lead to carelessness and short-sighted alfred-newmanism. Go on Twitter to rage against the red-hatted MAGA sociopath in Georgia who hasn’t gotten the vaccine, and hence made Omnicron happen. Stream your Netflix, order from Uber Eats (no-contact delivery), cancel your holiday plans, Zoom with your relatives on Christmas.
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I assume people going to sporting events, dinner, concerts, and so on, will have the same effect. People going to the movies, says the nurse, is going to break the health care system. Leaving the house in the midst of the lethal Omnicron Surge is damn well homicide. What remaining risk? Masks work, right? Vaccines work, right? What risk, then? The risk of being anywhere except home. Someone tried to float some hope, but was promptly put in his place:Įlsewhere, someone raised a question that would have seemed silly two years ago: Of course, this was rebuked by the Praetorian Guards of Eternal Concern:ĭude, I missed it after about three days, and have been doing my best to reconstitute it wherever I can. Ross Douthat tweeted out the piece, and said, more or less, a grip. I hope it’s not, but I can’t shake the feeling.” “No matter what you do, it comes topped with a thick head of new emotional terror,” he writes, and concludes: “Everyone knows the past is gone, but now the past’s future feels lost too. Nothing we have done seems to have worked.
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The lament was occasioned by the cheer of his wife and daughter returning from an outing to some cultural event. Title: I’m Starting to Give Up on Post-pandemic Life. He didn’t mention those things, but that’s the future he seems to believe is upon us, unto eternity. The constant scenes of people dropping dead in the streets from COVID, the shocking TikToks of old people weeping as their apartment doors were bricked shut, the constant huff and chuff of excavators digging mass graves in Central Park. There was an article in The Atlantic the other day that detailed the author’s inability to imagine a future, because of – well, you know.