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Life During Culture War Time — A Canadian’s Thoughts on the Anti-Vax Truckers and the War on Ukraine
By Moses Cirulis
Presented by Modest Metamodernist
On February 15th this year, I saw that the Canadian flag on one of my neighbors’ houses was dipped down quite a bit. When I asked him whether it was working right, he said that he had brought it down half-mast, after Trudeau had declared a state of emergency. He called it martial law, and said other things seemingly in support of the occupation in Ottawa, which I won’t detail here.
But my thought about this was this: if he cares so much about his fellow Canadians, then why didn’t he lower it a week ago?
I already know why. But it reveals something that I didn’t want to admit. One of my own neighbors has fallen for America’s latest export: anti-democratic authoritarianism. God help us all.
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Incidentally, that day was also my 31st birthday. After seeing this on my way to work, I tried to put it out of my mind. I had already been trying to do so for over a week by temporarily removing Facebook and Twitter from my phone, but, curse my knowledge, news of the American alt-right funded and Canadian far-right supported anti-vax trucker blockade still trickled in.
