CoVid19, capitalism and collapse of civilization.

How the virus exposes the rot at the base.

CoVid19 is rapidly changing the world we grew up in. In the West, millions are starting to realize that their realities are not insulated from existential threats, a truth that people in the Global South were forced to accept long ago. It is certain that the collapse we are witnessing is monumental and very real. Millions of people have literally seen their means of living evaporate, casting their futures in serious doubt. Others — the homeless, handicapped, elderly, refugees, in other words the more vulnerable — have been abandoned to die or miraculously survive, in spite of odds. Governments have ramped up repression and put in place mass surveillance —a development which could prove very hard to undo once the virus passes. Let’s just say it would be rare if our masters would let this crisis go to waste — haven’t we all marveled at how effectively the totalitarian Chinese regime has handled this outbreak?

The pandemic is stretching our social fabric to its limit, exposing fault lines which had already eroded its flexibility significantly. As if we weren’t already living an era of existential fear. Had runaway climate change not recently crept into mass consciousness, evoking the specter of societal collapse and mass extinction? Had the rift between rich and poor…