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In 1959, Eugene Ionesco wrote the absurdist play Rhinoceros in which one by one, an entire town of people suddenly transform into rhinos. At first, people are horrified but as the contagion spreads, (almost) everyone comes to accept that turning into a rhinoceros is fine. 1/
Rhinoceros is a play about conformity and mob mentality and mass delusion, about how easy it is for people to accept outrageous/unacceptable things simply because everyone else is doing it.
In the end, the protagonist Berenger is the only human left. 2/
In the end, the protagonist Berenger is the only human left. 2/
I've been thinking about Rhinoceros a lot this week, as we enter this new season of "return to pre-Covid normalcy" on hyperdrive.
There are many good reasons to try to avoid getting infected with Covid. It's not innocuous and it's dangerous to pretend otherwise. 3/
There are many good reasons to try to avoid getting infected with Covid. It's not innocuous and it's dangerous to pretend otherwise. 3/
