A rich inner life might be only upside of this invincible pandemic – Brisbane Times

The central theory that total circumstances create new people is probably true. But it never really succeeded because even the most brutal human beings can’t really create total, inescapable, suffocating social experiences. Only forces beyond human control can do that. Forces like, say, a deadly, enormously infectious virus.
I’ve been thinking about this ever since we learned that Auckland Auckland! went back into lockdown this week. This is New Zealand, which just racked up a century of days w…

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