“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
(Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
In any case, in the mindless surfing that approaches an altered state, I saw an ad that left me nearly apoplectic. It consisted of a series of faces covered by masks of all types and sizes. The voice-over repeated like the peeling of bells over St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Easter: “This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is solidarity.”
It propelled me off the couch. I screamed, “IT’S A MASK.”
It’s a mask that we would not have been allowed to wear into a bank or a federal or state office or municipal office a mere three months ago.
It’s a mask. It’s a mask. It’s a mask.
Like a man condemned to psychological torture in the Gulag, I started to recount all the lies we were being told under the guise of erudition and belonging.
I am not a man (anymore).
I did not have sex with that woman.
I can marry anyone, including my cat.
It’s all Trump’s fault.
Then I wondered: Can a culture go nuts? What are the signs? And what happens when it really does?
Unfortunately, there are few signs for those who are already indoctrinated and for whom the insane culture is normative. The Aztecs are a perfect example . A highly complex culture, replete with infrastructure, religious and imperial hierarchies, and an incredibly successful system of commerce and agriculture, they were also a war machine running on an engine of blood lust. The Aztec empire performed an estimated 200,000 human sacrifices a year, including (maybe especially) young children and babies. Their rituals, bloody and horrifying to any sane person, were normative to them. Does that make the culture normal?
Of course not.
As a result of this tectonic shift, there are things happening in our culture that are truly insane. Period. As a result of this increasing insanity I have resigned from the National Association of Social Workers. I am taking down the shingle that used to stand for compassion and righteousness, but now stands for nothing more than social indoctrination and lunacy, an organization that protests against the death penalty for serial killers but rallies in favor of partial birth abortion.
Insane.
And what are they selling by telling me the mask means “solidarity?” Does the sickle and hammer at football games come next? Is mass social consensus the new righteousness? Does it mean that those who don’t like the hypoxia resulting from masks are no longer good Americans?
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