If you haven’t read it already, Bruno Latour’s “After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis” touches on many ideas that are similar to yours here. Plus it also returns again and again to the image of Gregor Samsa from Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” as a figure for lockdown. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/After+Lockdown%3A+A+Metamorphosis-p-9781509550029
Fear is the force that too many simply refuse to acknowledge and in that ignorance, become beholden to the magical thinking that has permeated our culture.
Who needs the fussy specifics of this, that, or the other religion, when we can’t even get the one part, consistent across all those regimented, codified and politicized spiritualities, right:
Do nothing to another you would not want done to yourself.
The golden rule. So simple a concept, so hard to practice.
Amazingly well written. Few authors have grabbed my perception and twisted it 90 degrees to see things from a different angle. Thank you.
If you haven’t read it already, Bruno Latour’s “After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis” touches on many ideas that are similar to yours here. Plus it also returns again and again to the image of Gregor Samsa from Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” as a figure for lockdown. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/After+Lockdown%3A+A+Metamorphosis-p-9781509550029
Fear is the force that too many simply refuse to acknowledge and in that ignorance, become beholden to the magical thinking that has permeated our culture.
Who needs the fussy specifics of this, that, or the other religion, when we can’t even get the one part, consistent across all those regimented, codified and politicized spiritualities, right:
Do nothing to another you would not want done to yourself.
The golden rule. So simple a concept, so hard to practice.