Millions and billions of lives have been wrecked, to be sure, but there is also a big impact on the way we see the world around us.
The simple categories of understanding that we once deployed to make sense of the world have been tested, challenged and even overthrown.
At the same time, I had become accustomed to treating the academic and intellectual worlds as something external to the social order.
Like so many others, I had come to regard intellectual discussion and debate as a challenging and most enjoyable parlor game that had little impact on the world.
On March 16, 2020, the laptop class conspired in a forced digitalization of the world in the name of pathogenic control, and this came at the expense of some two-thirds of the population who depended on physical interactions for their livelihood and psychological well-being.
For those who are researchers, writers, academics or just curious people who want to understand the world better - even improve it - to have one's intellectual operating system so profoundly disturbed is an occasion of profound disorientation.
As for the rest, they are taking up air space and should, in a just world, be tutoring the children with learning losses and delivering meals to the vaccine-injured.
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