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days 25-28

It’s easy to criticise, particularly if you think you are the proxy of the public or speak on behalf of the common good. But you become then like those busybodies we know about from our local council, who although they have no vested interest in an issue–do not
Simon Taylor 23 Apr 2020

day 23, 24: we are the destroyers of society

Yes, Je est un autre is become a collective and communal assertion: we are … Or, if it remain a matter of me it still maintains and expects the collective endorsement of too, it is poised or it poses on the edge of common recognition, which is ours in general, which
Simon Taylor 19 Apr 2020

days 21, 22: or an institution is defined by its freedoms

Now when it comes to community do we not normally consider it to be ours? When we think of it are we not drawn to think of community as this one in particular of which we are a part, to which we belong? And then when the association is invoked,
Simon Taylor 17 Apr 2020

on the amputation of infected members of society, III, day 20

I wrote that poverty is like a disease. But that it is one much easier to contain than COVID-19. Although the same technologies are in practice engaged in  containing it. These technologies include education and “contact tracing.” Among others: Rt. Hon. Ardern pointed to story-telling, a technique so venerable noone
Simon Taylor 15 Apr 2020

on the amputation of infected members of society, part II, day 19

They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after
Simon Taylor 14 Apr 2020

enjoy your resurrection, day 17, into day 18

Once resurrected then what? And what bits will be and which won’t? What will society lose? the weakest and most vulnerable? …or the sense that they are… having lost the sense of their welfare being our responsibility and of our meaning society. There may never have been any society
Simon Taylor 12 Apr 2020

what does Rona (thanks M.) tell us about mor(t)ality? days 14, 15, 16

I just read that Hal Willner–genius of collaboration–died of symptoms consistent with C-19 (as M. relates, Rona, in Oz). See this, since we are in one: And this: And: It is also shocking to read that named celebrities are being COVID-ed, coveted, and their deaths converted to the
Simon Taylor 11 Apr 2020

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