As the year 2020 arrived, we were living and thinking as we had been in 2019, 2018 and 2017. There was plenty of fear and outrage in the world, but the levels were fairly smooth. And then, unexpectedly, a long and nightmarish storm battered us.
We’ve all lived through three years of professionally-applied social pain. It has subsided now, but most people haven’t processed what has happened… they haven’t sorted and settled things inside themselves.
This type of delay is not unusual. In the aftermath of World War II, the Holocaust simply wasn’t talked about. After World War I, no one dared examine its obscenities for a full decade.
Recalibration
Storms such as we’ve just been through distort human character. We suffered through a fear-storm of Biblical proportions, supercharged with the high-tech application of social pain. Anyone who differed with the party line was punished, and harshly. Millions were fired from their jobs, tolerance for the opinions of others was destroyed, bodily autonomy was rejected, free speech was thrown away with force.
And all the authorities, all the holders of positions, all the enforcers and sacrifice collectors… they drove it all in unison, mercilessly. Those who objected were removed in one way or another.
So, we have a lot to face and a lot to unwind.
Most of us, in one way or another, need to re-balance ourselves… to recalibrate ourselves. And we can do that in either of two ways: We can recalibrate to reality, or we can recalibrate to fantasy.
The healthy and sustainable path forward is to recalibrate to reality, but reality and doesn’t cater to human feelings. Fantasy, on the other hand, succeeds by painting pictures of whatever the hearers would like to be true.
So, I think we should begin by facing the one, essential conclusion from the entire Covid business:
Everyone got it anyway.
All the threats and enforcements and orders… the actions of authority and the authorized… simply failed. It was the greatest public failure in human history.
Appeals like “We did the best we could” are fake, late and thin. The pronouncements of authority were were absolutes backed by force, shame, threat and the weaponizing of one’s own family.
We need to grasp this rather than evading it. If everyone got it anyway, then all the edicts and punishments were worthless at best, and all attempts to evade that recognition are the enemies of mind.
Last Words
Jesus was ever so right when he advised people to clean the inside first. We need to begin by fixing ourselves.
Whether we feel like it or not, we must recalibrate to reality. And the reality is that all the pompous pronouncements, all the punishment, all the censorship and all the intimidation… all of it crashed and burned in a flaming heap.
Everyone got it anyway.
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