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day 32

I didn’t tell anyone, how could I? But there were times at the beginning of this enigmatic time, which has only slowly begun turning its face towards us, when I thought I cannot bear to be part of a world where governments do not claim the political prerogative of
Simon Taylor 28 Apr 2020

day 29, 30 & 31

I knew that the promise of this crisis, that it didn’t make any; least of all did it promise through the slippages entailed in the political management of the crisis any reevaluation of the principles by which that political management is in government informed. What is meant here by
Simon Taylor 26 Apr 2020

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

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