We don’t understand time. We’re born old, and get younger every day. A baby carries the biological and…

We don’t understand time. We’re born old, and get younger every day. A baby carries the biological and evolutionary history of its species, going back millions of years. Old. As it grows, it learns the customs, language, knowledge and traditions of its society. All old. /1 https://t.co/KTPmtle90p

Each of us as we go through this growth and maturation process adds new variations to that inherited legacy. New thoughts, new acts and deeds. New genetic changes. Time flows from old to new, our lives only appear to go the other way, from ‘newborn’ babe to decrepit oldie…/2

…because we, as good modern libertarians, can only see it as an individual phenomenon. What we see as *our* individual ageing is actually a collective drive towards youthfulness. Towards the new. Life acts against time. I was thinking about this in relation to the pandemic. /3

Neoliberal/libertarian “N=1” beliefs have no past, no time. Just an eternal present. As we live our lives now, focused on individual lifestyles divorced from the customs and traditions that are the accumulated wisdom of previous generations. Our ancestors fought pandemics…/4

…but we’ll ‘live with’ them (we think), because we’ve replaced a collective youthfulness with a sterile, individual, botoxed and face-lifted caricature of life. All of those rigid botoxed faces imitating the young are really a collective society enslaved to the old. /5

Maturity used to be fighting existential crises, for the continuation of the species. Now it’s a desperate attempt to ‘stay young’, perversely imitating the oldest part of our history, our biological and social heritage. Nothing is as old as a baby. It’s that drive for…/6

…*individual* immortality rather than a constantly renewed, young and fresh collective society that is the ball and chain around our legs in this pandemic. I’ve had my 3 jabs, I can go back to my individual lifestyle. /end