Coming Out of Crisis

I have seen a few pieces written about how ‘things can never go back to normal’ after this pandemic. A very insightful Medium post predicted the great onslaught of forces that will soon converge to try and convince us to pretend to be back in life as it used to be. I want to try dig into what has been bothering me lately about this desire to get back to normal.

Like any reasonable person I also yearn for a time where tens of thousands of our fellow humans aren’t dying each week and fear doesn’t permeate our lives. However, we have two distinct choices for how to navigate out of this. We can go back to how it was, or we can move forward.

When it became clear that this virus had already crept into the US, likely long before the preventative measures were deployed, a panic set in. The ruling class can leverage their resources to hammer the messaging that our healthcare system is fine, homelessness isn’t a problem, or that an increasing number of vulnerable people aren’t being crushed into misery by vast shadowy corporate conglomerates. They can stand up and say over and over again that America is the greatest country on Earth and get a good chunk of the population to believe it. However, this foreign invader did not have to listen to them.

The spread of the virus, and the various attempts to combat it brought out bizarre and grim specters of modern American life the likes of which could have been imagined by anyone from Mark Twain to Chuck Palahniuk. A fear of future shortages caused a sudden run on the market for toilet paper. Megachurch pastors refused to observe social distancing to prevent the spread of the virus, driving conservative governors to cry federal overreach. The President stood up in front of our nation with CEOs of some of the largest corporations in the world and gave them each 30 second spots to pitch their brands. We also learned that our fearless leader had eliminated the pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs! This country has ceased to be structured to protect its people and we are faced with the patchwork that came to fill the void.

At this point our nation is like a derelict house with the copper wiring stripped out of the walls where teenagers come in the night to have bon fires and break bottles. And damn it we were still all acting surprised when a hurricane knocked it flat.

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