All alike

[Boltlady]

It's all part of the overall plan.


With face masks now becoming a mandatory part of the “new normal,” the enforcement measures to make people wear them, by both agents of the state and members of the general public, are becoming more dehumanizing and draconian.

This is precisely the scenario envisaged by enigmatic German author Ernst Jünger in his 1932 classic.

As Thomas Crew details in his article The Dystopian Age of the Mask, the “eradication of all individuality” is a running theme of all dystopian literature.

This is expressed by George Orwell in 1984 when he describes the masses as, “a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans…three hundred million people all with the same face.”

 

[BobbyT]

It's all part of the overall plan.


With face masks now becoming a mandatory part of the “new normal,” the enforcement measures to make people wear them, by both agents of the state and members of the general public, are becoming more dehumanizing and draconian.

This is precisely the scenario envisaged by enigmatic German author Ernst Jünger in his 1932 classic.

As Thomas Crew details in his article The Dystopian Age of the Mask, the “eradication of all individuality” is a running theme of all dystopian literature.

This is expressed by George Orwell in 1984 when he describes the masses as, “a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans…three hundred million people all with the same face.”

It's the eyes that are the window to the soul, not the mouth, nose, and chin. As long as we have eyes with which to express our feelings, emotions, attitude, to speak without words, we are hardly "the same face."

One wonders if such hysterical wondering about dehumanization occurred during the 1918 pandemic when mask wearing was common and often mandatory. One wonders if those with such a dystopian view of a common precaution against infectious diseases think that all Japanese think with one mind, as many, many people in Japan routinely cover their nose and mouth with masks when going about in public, and have been since SARS.

Listening to the automatons shouting LOCK HER UP! is a good example of the "marching forward in perfect unity, all think the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans" though, now that I reread it. However, that group of nitwits does not represent even half of the population and we are in no danger of being subsumed into their mindless following of donald.