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Gary Weglarz's avatar

Thank you Margaret and Fernando for so eloquently articulating the hearts and minds of all we many millions who are denied a voice or shunned as "heretics" when we express the least doubt regarding the unfolding madness.

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Diana's avatar

I so appreciated this brilliant guest essay and it brings me immense hope to know that the global resistance is joining together, translating each other's words, and working on behalf of those of us who can't put things quite so poetically. (One needs art, one needs poetry, one needs literature, during such times.)

I should note that it also brings me great despair that regional and cultural distinctions seem to have been discarded during this global catastrophe. (And you know that what I'm referring to as a catastrophe is the response, for covid itself humans can endure and manage.) Is there anywhere, now, for which this line could not be written:

"Thus, the media environment became one long ad, whose overt goal was to turn every viewer into an unthinking, submissive, and very scared citizen." (And now, it seems, they've added "angry" and "vengeful" toward the unvaccinated to their list...which couldn't have been done without first accomplishing the former.)

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