Thread by @EmpireinWinter

'decent, compassionate people predominate on all sides of the Covid wars. Notwithstanding caricatures to the contrary, most pro-vaxxers are not stupefied sheep, and most vaccine skeptics are not frothing ignoramuses.'

charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/reunion?r=y4…

'Enter each of those universes (mainstream and dissident) and it seems almost inconceivable that an intelligent, moral person could occupy the other; yet, it is so.'

'The pandemic will have been wasted if the result is a new status quo somewhere between pre-Covid normal and the new normal of techno-pharmaco-politico-corporate authoritarianism.'

Would that it were so...
'A big reckoning is coming. Yet let’s please hold in view the end goal that we serve: to welcome all as divine members of the human family....Nor can we serve our true goal by temporarily dehumanizing the enemy as a tactic of war'

'with the idea of rehumanizing them after victory is ours. No. The way we behave right now prefigures the future that shall be. '

'Someday, we will have to choose between the satisfaction of punishment, and making the wrongdoing stop. It may seem those two are often one and the same—deterrence, setting an example, and all that—but they are not always the same'

'What does accountability look like, disentangled from rewards and penalties? What does apology look like, distinct from submission? These are the questions that must come alive if we are to regroup the human family' @stuartlosaltos