I mean hopefully this nasty unglamorous illness would kick fat acceptance in the pants. You wouldn't have guessed that collapse and disaster would be overwhelming the nation because of all the burgers but you should have done. Hopefully now we would clamp down on overeating like we clamped down on smoking, and France would clamp down on smoking like it clamps down on bad food.
What's more telling is that, old or not, Italy is very healthy for a first world country it has but a trace of the luxury diseases found in most rich countries(particularly the rich countries that won the second world war, much of the English-speaking world is degenerated on the spoils of war). What happens with corona in a land of childhood obesity is that the young die as though they were old and frail.
Maybe poorer countries would be better off taking their chances with the virus. Duterte is worse than accepting the brutal reality that the weak must make way for the strong.
Distance is something far, far away in the days when when the world was wide.
All you need to know is that China is a controlling liar. They could easily provoke a virus and think absolutely nothing of the human cost containing it.
I know that equals people takes all the personality out of the world - and the beauty - but it's the virus forcing us into it. Normally a pretty face or way with words granted you a lot more freedom than anybody else yet here we are now equals peoples.
And likewise Slavs are not a race of heartless monsters just because warmth and altruism are more intimate than public for them. The poor have always had a lower-profile, closely-knit and more intimate type of concern different to the aid for Africa and rich man's concern for how the stranger sees them. Dickens wrote about it.
And money changes things in two respects. Obviously more money than you know what to do with leads to a type of generous but more important is the anxiety to impress that you are a somebody. But this does not mean that the high "generosity" of the gulf is not built upon man's inhumanity to man. Guilt perhaps for all the Pakis they've exploited and killed.
What celebrities basically are is the new aristocracy built on the wealth inherited from industrial society they have pride of place in our post-productive society. But not forever. It was that industrial society itself that killed the first aristocrats. Celebrity culture will take a knock as life and economics becomes more about making money as opposed to just spending it.
There'll always be room on a ventilator for the .1% but I think the USA reduces the chance of having to share a ward with anybody let alone common twats.
And they move to LA because they're the idle rich. It is the place where status will arrive at yet more status until they're beheaded by revolutionaries.
But even though there is good reason for the lockdown this will increasingly be depicted as a conspiracy to keep you in a little box. It is then that tyrants seize power in that every anarchist is a confused dictator way they do.
Well there is the Swedish method of doing the right thing anyway. As a high-tech collective of singletons who nevertheless support the community they are a good if not contradictory combination of living on your with considering other people.
Choice, privilege. I don't think we'd be that happy without finding that one in a million even though we're not that one in a million. Ask someone who they were in a past life and they might say Cleopatra, nobody ever says they're a reincarnated toilet cleaner.
There's a shortage of dates in the world right now that everyone has to make up for after. That's how completely how love works. And if you're thinking about security you know that pensions will be ripe for a trim in the post-corona cuts, why not move in together and make a saving?
And narcissism means that we could undermine the status-quo simply because we're entranced by our own uniqueness. Entitled to a different set of rules. That's what rebel without a cause is about - the tendency of modernity is revolting. The trajectory of progress is a world that revolves around you the individual, but if there's a blast from the past, how do you cope?
Because of modernity you will have a problem with authority, but this does not necessarily mean that authority has a problem with you. Not a single stock exchange was burned down in 2008.
No, what the authorities don't want is a load of layabouts with nothing better to do than cause trouble. To have tis just many people doing nothing with their lives will fuel the ranks of global conspiracy theorists who are themselves prelude to a megalomaniac.
He's as high profile as he is clumsy. Stumbling around meeting lots of people with an emphasis on being more familiar than your usual politician, to know him much more personally getting nice and close.
I would gamble on there being three waves of exposure each one less severe than the last. Spring, Autumn and Spring 2021. Longterm it could become like a particularly vicious flu where anybody over the age of 18 gets vaccinated.
And the richer we get the more nice hair we've already seen. One of our hobbies is to camping: choosing to sleep outside on the ground for fun. The high status world stoops to find that something more authentic, something that can still be trusted.
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I mean hopefully this nasty unglamorous illness would kick fat acceptance in the pants. You wouldn't have guessed that collapse and disaster would be overwhelming the nation because of all the burgers but you should have done. Hopefully now we would clamp down on overeating like we clamped down on smoking, and France would clamp down on smoking like it clamps down on bad food.