The pandemic has made public a form of necessary punitive-justice-through-scission that has previously been pervasively experienced only in the private dimension of liberal society around liberals' careerism and moral sanctimony1.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
After Djokovic was released from detention and his visa cancellation quashed, the entire conversation has become about the immigration minister's 'god-like powers'. It's never been more clear what the COVID world is becoming.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The detention of the World #1 and history's greatest tennis player and philosopher of the sport is an expression of a perverted form of meritocracy that has been emerging in liberal societies that has now crystallized in this depressingly unsurprising global political farce.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An article in the NY Times argues for the legitimacy of forced compliance with vaccine mandates and, in so doing, seems to express a fundamental change in Western Liberalism's religious orientation.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On the one hand, the development of the Omicron narrative indicates concealment that points to important considerations for fighting the virus. On the other hand, its speed of change points to the need for a new (or old) praxis for action.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx