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Coronavirus and Its Discontents

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The Response to the Virus Is That You Have to Still Be a Part of the Collective

The response to the virus shows that you know we're still connected to each other. There's no way that you can lose yourself in the collective, he says. The image of communism is i think trumped by our situation today and it presents a new form which doesn't require this immersing of yourself in thecollective almost simply because you can't. In order to be concerned about the collective you have to extract yourself from it and not go out and see people and not connect the people.

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