nedosionist

You should be able to tell the difference between Pesach and TishaB’Av. The destruction of America came through a piece of cloth. Even for an observer like yours truly, having viewed risks of an upcoming fascist era as non-trivial for decades, the speed, ferocity and mainstreaming of transition was stunning. There will be plenty of time ahead for discussion of varieties of fascism. Have you promoted fascism today yet?

Wuhan-Wenliang coronavirus pandemic of 2020 is primarily a spiritual malady (Yes, I used to think of epidemics as natural events, too.) That is subject to further religious interpretations, as is usual with scientific issues. Some would point to the as yet unknown and thus misterious provenance of virus, believed to have originated in a Chinese lab at Wuhan, or а mutation itself. Others would focus on MSM fake news, hoaxes and panic, a generation easily giving up social trust and contacts with friends and family on government say-so, and sclerotic, misguided and repressive government response. Our leaders’ responses turned out to be dumb and evil. Taken together, this is systemwide. All of these are institutional, and spiritual. You can see the resulting epidemic in religious terms as a self-inflicted Divine punishment for these very sins; which should have been avoided.

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Many people are having the same conversation, and so do many policymakers in many countries. It is clear that american response model is inferior to the chinese; unfortunately. The implications are threefold. First, many of the countries adopting now pro-fascist response would choose to keep some of them. Second, when adopting social policies countries would more likely choose to be guided by chinese approaches, than by western ones. Third, in the future attempts to name and shame them into liberalizing, the retort would be more likely pointing that under stress, american principles gave way.

International fascism would come in variety of shapes and nuances. There is an interesting divergence of early response among the pre-Wuhan nationalists and would-be authoritarians. Some, like Hungary, Phillipines, Russia, choose to use the cover of freshly normalized international fascist response to amplify domestic authoritarianism and power consolidation. Others, notably Belarus and Singapore, choose to make a stand at maintaining pre-Wuhan normalcy a bit longer even under some outiside pressure.