The Bombed Out Ivory Towers of our Minds
Beware. This is harsh.
The generic We in these United States often describe academic folk as living in Ivory Towers, that is, isolated from the ‘reality’ the rest of us live in.
Unfortunately, we each live in the Ivory Tower of our own mind. We can let information in or keep it out at will. In these United States, the Constitution encodes rules for behavior that allow each person to claim authority in their own life while ignoring the FACT that whatever one person does affects everyone they come in contact with either in person or in cyberspace.
We have a pandemic raging all over Earth, a disease our medical experts are still trying to understand and control.
People in these United States individually decide how they will respond to this threat.
A great many people claim the pandemic is a hoax. No measures to combat it are necessary.
A great many people claim that since the virus will kill, let it. Survival of the fittest and all that.
Some people are following the guidance of medical experts who, as I mentioned, are still trying to understand and control this disease.
Our society is in various types of lockdown to keep this disease from spreading wildly and overwhelming our…
