The pandemic is manifestly not over & risk reduction is the rational disposition If you are not masking now it is because you are a nervous social conformer or you've been gaslit by morons into believing you should square up against multiple reinfections of a systemic vasculitis
Here's why I think about the Roman empire everyday youtu.be/C9xhjmIvVsM
Neoliberalism destroyed education and intellectualism as anything except tributary to profit thereby making them structurally stupid
Working from home can reduce climate emissions. Working from home keeps employees and their families safer from COVID-19. But CEOs are forcing workers to return to the office so that they can protect real estate profits.
by self conscious I mean in the ecological non individuated unatomized sense of 'self' that realizes the colloquial notion of self for the fairytale that it is. We are mostly made up of microorganisms with nonhuman DNA. We require ecological dialectical relations to exist there is no individual
Self conscious political action and modes of socioeconomic rearrangement + living are possible & the concept of self is an illusory amalgam of subpersonas that represents convolutedly interconnected clusters of neurons in the process of allostasis & homeodynamics being is enough
sociocultural expectations & conditioning that we use to form our fantastic notions are the only substance of the story of self, but that story is baseless, ridiculous and corrupt the philosophers of the axial age figured this out before neuroscience confirmed "self" is fiction
We are mostly made of microorganisms with nonhuman DNA. We require ecological dialectical relations to exist and modern neuroscience shows the narrative of self to be fictitious in concert with the assertions of the axial age philosophers One need not conform to expectation to be