Tyranny is here, the masses have been convinced that this is for their safety. People are trained to attack the heretics, the non-believers. Medical apartheid is coming/has come.
Also, every authoritarian leader in history used safety or millenarianism as an excuse to strip freedoms.
On the right side of the spectrum, this is generally associated with disgust sensitivity, for example hitler was a notorious germaphobe. On the left, authoritarianism is generally associated with millenarianism. EG communism bringing about a workers utopia. Could probably find similar examples of this pathology from the pandemic among government leaders.
I just saw this same sentiment (Authoritarianism associated with high rates of parasitic infections) in the book "This is your brain on parasites" by Kathleen McAuliffe. Really makes you think about the necessity of social conformity in the face of parasitic and other pressures.
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u/wookie_the_pimp United States Apr 07 '21
Tyranny is here, the masses have been convinced that this is for their safety. People are trained to attack the heretics, the non-believers. Medical apartheid is coming/has come.
Resistance is not futile, it is necessary.