{"id":5814,"date":"2022-07-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2022-09-17T16:52:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T16:52:29","slug":"looking-at-matthew-crawfords-essay-2022-covid-was-liberalisms-endgame-part-9-of-10%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5814","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Matthew Crawford’s Essay (2022) “Covid Was Liberalism’s Endgame” (Part 9 of 10)\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

0049 The federal government responds.  But the term, “federal”, is now delocalized.  It used to refer to a federation of sovereign states in America.  Now, it means a federation of sovereign states in both America and Europe, even though the Europeans have not recognized the subtle shift in terminology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technocratic progressivism knows how to shift the meanings of words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0050 Here is a picture of the plague-unraveled individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0051 The normal context of the federal government3c<\/sub> brings the actuality of a medical state of emergency2c<\/sub>, complete with quarantines of healthy citizens, into relation with the potential of ‘biosecurity’1c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The normal context of a state of fear3b<\/sub> brings the actuality that the novel coronavirus endangers vulnerable persons2b<\/sub> into relation with the government apparatuses of subsidiary states, such as Germany and Italy, as well as America and Canada1b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The normal context of the sociopathic reactionary resistance3a<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of common folk denying the well-publicized dangers2a<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the potential of a countervailing democratic initiative1a<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the federal government3c<\/sub> and the leviathan1b<\/sub> can manage the anticipated3a<\/sub> commonsense2a<\/sub> democratic1a<\/sub>initiative.  That is where the control files on politicians, influencers, corporate media celebrities, religious leaders, and so on, enters the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0052 How about some anecdotal evidence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crawford describes his observations of people in the California Bay Area, a technocratic progressive heartland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, people wear masks outdoors, not so much for personal protection, but because zero covid is a heroic battle, requiring a literal effacement of the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah, wearing masks1a<\/sub>\u00a0signals one’s virtuous solidarity with vulnerable persons endangered by the virus2b<\/sub>.\u00a0\u00a0It is\u00a0an expression of democracy1a<\/sub><\/em>\u00a0in support of\u00a0the leviathan1b<\/sub>,<\/em>\u00a0rather than\u00a0common folk,<\/em>\u00a0who do not care about\u00a0those designated as “vulnerable”2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0053 Here is the virtual nested form in the category of firstness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The normal context of biosecurity1c<\/sub><\/em>\u00a0virtual brings\u00a0slogans from the leviathan1b<\/sub><\/em>\u00a0into relation with\u00a0the potential of affirmation by democratic expression1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a diagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 22<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0054 What about lockdowns?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does staying home during a lockdown show democratic assent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture of the virtual nested form in the realm of actuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0055 Crawford describes how lockdowns force social isolation.  Social atomization is one of the conditions that support the rise of totalitarian movements.  The Party offers the only way to… um… party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, social isolation purifies the citizens of the Bay Area, who democratically assent1a<\/sub> to the leviathan1b<\/sub> rather than what used to be called “commonsense”2a<\/sub><\/em>.  Those wearing masks outdoors<\/em> dance to the cultish vibe of hygiene maximalists<\/em>.  Here are the uncontaminated spiritual warriors of a nascent hygiene state<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crawford waxes eloquent about a social scene that makes common folk want to puke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0056 Here is a picture of the virtual nested form in the category of secondness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0057 Need I continue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The denizens of the San Francisco Bay Area abandon commonsense2a<\/sub> and embrace medical tyranny1b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denizens?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, they aren’t individuals anymore, are they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0049 The federal government responds.  But the term, “federal”, is now delocalized.  It used to refer to a federation of sovereign states in America.  Now, it means a federation of sovereign states in both America and Europe, even though the Europeans have not recognized the subtle shift in terminology. Technocratic progressivism knows how to shift the meanings of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[259,257,255,261,260,264,262,55,265,256,263,238,258,34,50],"class_list":["post-5814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meaning-underlying-religion","category-message-underlying-religion","tag-althusser","tag-bgill","tag-big-government-illiberalism","tag-category","tag-democracy","tag-hobbes","tag-interpellation","tag-interscope","tag-leviathan","tag-liberal","tag-locke","tag-mystery","tag-novel-coronavirus","tag-peirce","tag-religion"],"yoast_head":"\nLooking at Matthew Crawford's Essay (2022) "Covid Was Liberalism's Endgame" (Part 9 of 10)\ufffc - An Archaeology of the Fall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5814\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking at Matthew Crawford's Essay (2022) "Covid Was Liberalism's Endgame" (Part 9 of 10)\ufffc - An Archaeology of the Fall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"0049 The federal government responds.  But the term, “federal”, is now delocalized.  It used to refer to a federation of sovereign states in America.  Now, it means a federation of sovereign states in both America and Europe, even though the Europeans have not recognized the subtle shift in terminology. 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