The unpredictability of the political response to the Covid19 disease from the novel Sars2 coronavirus is certainly raising existential questions about our own individualism.
The most extreme proposals seem to be something like
stop the economy, declare marital law, and stop the virus in its tracks, mostly
to protect people who are medically more vulnerable anyway.
Lives, as we know them, will be culturally
and economically destroyed by the quarantines of the well. But no matter, people are supposed to care
more about their communities than themselves.
That’s communism.
But there is something about people (like me) who have
little access to social capital and care very little about it, and just want to
drive their own lives with normal exercise of their natural rights. If that is taken away from them, they fail as
persons. They become nothing. Especially if they had depended on unearned
wealth.
In theory, some people want to see the world revert
back to a confederation of intentional communities, where people are very tied to
their own “blood and soil”, or “comrades”.
I mentioned the pressure from social media to become
publicly involved in “other people’s problems” when in the past charity was
more private. In fact, perhaps my
attitude toward this could be tempered by the fact that you can limit your social
media audience to known lists, rather than use it as a tool for self-publishing.
Recently, one prominent Twitter user demonstrated his personal bonding with an
underprivileged teen and then challenged specific celebrities to become
involved with that person. I would have seen
that as rude, and indeed this particular Twitter user is a “conservative” –
when that very personalized appeal sounds like something you would normally see
from the communal Left.
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