The future is a facade. It is a system of deception that is empty by itself. We are heading towards a proliferation of forms without substance.
At the height of the coronavirus panic, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health ordered beaches closed. But shortly after the craziness peaked, health officials decided they wanted to encourage exercise and changed their orders. Although the sea was opened to bathers, the coast remained closed.Swimming was allowed, but not swimming lounge Underwater. Recreation was prohibited. Only “active movement” was allowed, and the sand could only be used as a path to access the site of that movement. The beach chair was meant to kill grandma.
You'll still hear people in uniform or in high-ranking positions telling you about the rules, but you won't believe them. And they won't either.
I took my daughter while that order was being taken mothers beach, a sheltered location on Long Beach with calm waves along the side of the bay. Consider this my confession. we rebuilt.
Joining other families, we put our butts in the sand. And we kept them there. We also went into the water, but mostly to walk around and could not carry out any exercise activity that is permitted under published government procedures.
After relaxing on the illegal beach for about 20 minutes, we watched as lifeguards boarded their boats, turned off the engines, and grabbed microphones. “Attention!” he said over the loudspeaker. “The beach is closed. The water should only be used for vigorous exercise. All persons on the beach must enter the sea and begin swimming or leave the area immediately. I can’t stay.”
Then he quickly throttled up the engine and spluttered away without looking back. The 40 or 50 people on the beach shrugged their shoulders and went on with their day. He didn't care, we didn't care, and he didn't care that we didn't care, and everyone knows that everyone else doesn't care I did. One government official simply did what was prescribed by formal rules, so as not to stand by and watch people ignore what he had to say.
Nonsense is empty and hollow. When you trust the police and other authority figures and believe they are trying to protect your community, you listen to them. In some cases, you may reluctantly listen to them because their reputation for being dangerous spreads and you make a move to distrust them and follow them. And sometimes, knowing that they are working for idiots who make stupid rules, officials and the public join in the project of ignoring the whole stupid show as much as possible.
If in doubt, ask your military recruiter. The growing stupidity of American institutions leads to a decline in respect and willing participation.
Dr. St. Anthony Fauci shrugged, told a parliamentary committee This week, it became clear that there was no science behind public health rules requiring 6 feet of social distancing. That standard “in some ways is just emerging,” he says.
LOL, Yolo. Warn me, you bastard..
But this is a real person Thought Here's the hilarious chatter, using casual social media punctuation: “I watched my grandmother slowly die of cancer over Zoom because we had to stay '6 feet' apart. She didn't have us to hug her for a year. I lived in pain and loneliness.'' Or walk by her. Now it seems like “Fauci just made it up''… There is no amnesty or mercy for the new coronavirus. ”
So what will happen next time? Public health agencies will continue to exist, continue to grow, continue to make rules, and continue to tell people about those rules. Do you care? Will anyone do it?
Military personnel can't just walk away from work without telling anyone, but the Secretary of Defense did so for the better part of a week, not informing anyone up or down the chain of command. He was hospitalized for a while. How do you punish a sergeant or captain who hasn't told anyone his whereabouts for a while when the top officials at the Pentagon don't expect the same?
Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University after critics presented plausible claims of plagiarism in her work. The university only acknowledged, without quoting her, that she had used “duplicitous language.” She continues her work as a tenured professor at Harvard University, but after her mentorship failed, she returned to the faculty. What would enforcing plagiarism allegations against undergraduate students look like in a post-gay academic environment?
Italians know they have a government, but they famously don't care much about it.sample heading: “It's been 25 years since anyone in Italy trusted the government.” Americans are well along the way of having institutions that they only rate with distant contempt. There will still be people in uniforms and people with respectable positions who will tell you about the rules, but you won't believe them. And they won't either.
The only way out of that destination is to end the double standards and negative shrug of failure. You can assess the likelihood of those outcomes yourself.
