Waiting for the virus

 

- Well, don´t look at me, I din do nuthin! 

Far right gadfly Richard Spencer on X muses about the hanta situation.

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When I think about Covid, I feel that the pandemic happened only yesterday ... and thirty years ago! Obviously, not too many years have gone by, but we've moved past that era's politics and culture to a point that it feels like it might as well have occurred in the '90s.

"Wokeness" is over, at least as a flamboyant public spectacle. And most of the Right has moved passed the bizarre paranoia of that period. Both sides have "forgotten everything and learned nothing!" to misquote Talleyrand. That is, they have not overcome their past mistakes and are likely to double-down if given the opportunity. The Hantavirus seems serious enough ... but I won't opine on whether or not this will develop into a worldwide pandemic and panic. It might very well blow over. What I do know is this: First, if we suffer TWO "once in a century" pandemics, then it is fair to begin asking questions about the "collapse of complex societies." In other words, the world is breaking down due to its own inner logic. Global travel and modern medicine's ability to keep old and sick people alive for extended periods is building up connected kindling for a major catastrophe. We won't suffer a collapse in spite of post-modernity; we will suffer a collapse because of it! Second, as bad as Covid was, a Hantavirus pandemic will totally break Americans' brains. We will see insane conspiracy theorizing and public disorder that will make the Covid period seem like a walk in the park. Interesting times...

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