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It feels like it's finally over, doesn't it, the whole "apocalyptic pandemic" thing? I mean, really, really over this time. Not like all those other times when you thought it was over, but it wasn't over, and was like the end of those
Alien movies, where it seems like Ripley has finally escaped, but the alien is hiding out in the shuttle, or the escape pod, or Ripley's intestinal tract.
But this time doesn't feel like that. This time it feels like it's really, really over. Go out and take a look around. Hardly anyone is wearing masks anymore (except where masks are mandatory) or being coerced into submitting to "vaccinations" (except where "vaccination" is mandatory), and the hordes of hate-drunk New Normal fanatics who demanded that "the Unvaccinated" be segregated, censored, fired from their jobs, and otherwise demonized and persecuted, have all fallen silent (except for those who haven't).
Everything is back to normal, right?
Wrong. Everything is not back to normal. Everything is absolutely New Normal. What is over is the "shock-and-awe" phase, which was never meant to go on forever. It was always only meant to get us here.
Where, you're probably asking, is "here"?
"Here" is a place where the new official ideology has been firmly established as our new "reality," woven into the fabric of normal everyday life. No, not everywhere, just everywhere that matters. (Do you really think the global-capitalist ruling classes care what people in Lakeland, Florida, Elk River, Idaho, or some village in Sicily believe about "reality"?) Yes, most government restrictions have been lifted, mainly because they are no longer necessary, but in centers of power throughout the West, in political, corporate, and cultural spheres, in academia, the mainstream media, and so on,
the New Normal has become "reality," or, in other words, "just the way it is," which is the ultimate goal of every ideology.
Comment: The only one prolonging the war is the Empire. Ukraine was ready for negotiations back in April, when lackey Boris Johnson was dispatched to wreck the proceedings. Now Ukraine's position is that much worse, even with the temporary re-occupation of the west Kherson oblast.
Did Boris Johnson scuttle the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine?