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As restrictions start to ease, the MSM is full of alarmist stories from self-help quacks ramping up fear about a return to normality. But this determination to normalise lockdown constitutes a major threat to our freedom.
It seems that the therapy industry is determined to turn lockdown into a permanent lifestyle.
Almost daily, we hear of yet another mental health professional warning about the psychological dangers associated with people's anxieties about returning to normal.The
headline in the
New Yorker says it all: "Reopening anxiety: What if we're scared to go back to normal life?" You might have thought that what many people are most anxious about is the delay in getting back our normal freedoms. Not according to the
New Yorker. The article cites numerous experts and therapists, who appear determined to highlight the mental turmoil facing people entering the post-Covid-19 real world.
According to Priya Parker, a so-called 'conflict resolution facilitator', "our social muscles have atrophied". She calls going back to normality the phase of "re-entry". She adds, "there's extraordinary anxiety in that phase, and it's not illogical or irrational anxiety".
Comment: Freedom of speech, freedom of expression - these are long dead and gone in the west, despite the fact that many still cling to their shadows and ghosts. These days, people are simply too fragile to want to be confronted with their own hypocrisy.
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