Our Atomized Future?

5/15/2020

Students playing outside at a nursery school in France. Note the chalk boxes meant to enforce social distancing drawn around each individual student. Students are not permitted to leave the boundaries of their respective boxes.

This has to be one of the saddest and most infuriating images I have ever seen. Cruelty. That's what this is. I mean what's the point of even allowing the kids back if they are forced to endure this?

Still think the System is merely corrupted?

7 Comments

bruce charlton

5/15/2020 13:43:29

The kids are being taught to fear other people, other children, their best friends, cousins - all of the actual people in their environment.

Thank goodness that they can still trust The State (especially, here, the NHS bureaucracy), Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Big Pharma, the EU, UN, the professional researchers who develop complex computer models that are true by definition and without testing... There are so many organisations that we can trust - and indeed love.

Even better, all these organisations are all really just like one big family, which we can (and indeed must) all join.

Serhei

5/15/2020 16:10:54

The Disney Recess episode entitled “The Box” is EXTREMELY pertinent to that image, and immediately leapt into my mind on seeing it. The episode can easily be found on YouTube by searching ‘disney recess the box’.

Francis Berger

5/15/2020 17:44:58

Thanks for that,Serhei. That Disney video was bone-chilling to watch in light of the image above. Ahriman fast at work in the most pernicious of ways.

If you have seen the Disney video Serhei mentions, please do so.

Ingemar

5/15/2020 23:06:37

This is child abuse. Period.

I'll need to check out that Disney episode later, but the conspiracy theories about Disney (both the man and the company) being part of the Cabal are getting more and more credible by the day.

Hari Seldon

5/16/2020 05:08:16

This is a defining image of our present madness. The current situation reminds me of J. G. Ballard's short story, "The Intensive Care Unit," which imagines a world in which each person lives in total physical isolation, interacting with everyone else through the 1977 equivalent of Zoom. A series of cameras and TV screens throughout the house allows the narrator to lead an apparently normal, satisfying, middle-class life, including marrying, raising a family and building a successful career as a surgeon, without ever meeting or touching another human being. (With a couple of notable exceptions.)

Thanks for your writings. I came across your site via Prof. Charlton's blog.

Francis Berger

5/16/2020 08:45:54

@ HS -Thanks. I really appreciate Dr. Charlton's support of this blog.

I haven't read that JG Ballard story. Sounds interesting (and, sadly, topical).

booksinger

5/17/2020 03:46:07

Asimov had a short novel called "The Naked Sun" where the inhabitants on a planet used remote viewing instead of in-person interaction. The man was a prolific genius, a polymath. Published in 1956. Plot summary is on Wikipedia.

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