Photograph by Clay Banks Unsplash License
How well do you remember the before times1, when personal agency and privacy were dear to most of us? We are told it is necessary to replace those values with a new normal. It would have to be because of a misreading of history that anyone would consider giving up principles like those. In the words of Benjamin Franklin,
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
How much fear would you say is necessary before the average man considers rational thought to be the privilege of a few in the interests of the many? How much confusion needs to set in before he loses sight of the vortex he is caught up in? Appropriate passion is Duty. Great Panic is Virtue. Rational Reasoning, is Treason. Can the signs be any clearer?
Is what we are witnessing unprecedented? Let me know what you think in the comments.
© 2021 bushgrad
Reference:
Meyersohn, N. (27 Oct 2021). Grocery store shelves aren’t going back to normal this year. CNN Business. [Rag article]
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/09/business/grocery-stores-food-supply-chain/index.html