The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human

Our pre-March 2020 world is gone forever. Irretrievable.

For in league with mass surrender to all-powerful technology, the “restrictions” against the human assembly, speech, gathering, culture, and worship brought on by pandemic panic have brought new cultural norms frighteningly at odds with traditional Western notions of freedom and independent thought. Indeed, in our fear of public ostracism and shaming and our ready abandonment of free, open, spontaneous, individualistic, egalitarian, and tolerant expression, we in the West today live in a world of CCP-style regimentation and conformity. It is a world in which all human endeavor—all human joy, human fellowship, human advancement, human culture, human song, human drama, worship, surprise, flirtation, all celebration—is behind a digital paywall. A world in which we must ask permission from technology to be human. This is a world we must challenge and change.

ISBN: 1737478560    EAN: 9781737478560