Covid minimisers (really shills for ‘the economy’) realised they could justify killing people for business by…
Covid minimisers (really shills for ‘the economy’) realised they could justify killing people for business by pretending to be rescuing our social lives. They spun socialising.
The health benefits to socialising come from a cause not ever said. /1
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What analyses of socialising never say, and what our now obsession with ‘mental health’, also another cause the minimisers co-opted for their Infinite Infection campaign, doesn’t say either, is this.
Socialising is violence. The literal battle for social status. /2
Of course we’re unhappy when we can’t socialise, because then we’re low status. We’re not in the game. We absolutely need to reject the idea that the photo on that article suggests.
That socialising is good for us because it’s warm cuddles. /3
If that were true, people wouldn’t need mental health breaks from the hyper socialising of social media. It’s continuous imitative comparison, the continuous, anxious attempt to belong and have status.
We don’t understand this in ordinary everyday socialising. /4
It took social media to reveal the underlying mechanism, by turning it to 11.
We are always in a status game, when socialising. Fighting to get and maintain a place in a given group. /5
Will Storr talks brilliantly about how the stories we tell ourselves *about* the socialising hide the mechanism actually in play.
Minimisers didn’t rescue our warm and cuddly social lives. They rescued our battles for status, from the battle against a disease. /6
Look at the minimisers, they’re the perfect embodiment of what’s really going on. *Their* status has skyrocketed, because of the pandemic. Few had even heard of them, pre-Covid.
It’s what it’s all about, for them. Fame, fortune, and status. /7
Meanwhile millions discovered the joys of just staying home, in the earlier pandemic. Of being free of the imitative rivalry at work and in their social lives.
They found their families again, and their homes. As sacred places. /8
I know it’s a huge leap for many to see what seems like the most joyous activity, socialising, as an intrinsically violent thing. But think back to school. How often that socialising was brutal, the attempt to belong. To have an identity.
That doesn’t change in adult life. /9
It’s just better hidden by the stories we tell ourselves. And the rough edges get rubbed off by having money, and being able to suppress what’s really going on underneath layers of entertainment, food and drink.
To me it’s the most disgusting thing of the past 4-5 years. /10
That people whose actual interest is continued status and wealth for themselves (the ‘economy’ crowd), have co-opted narratives around social togetherness and mental health, and pretended to care about such things.
They couldn’t give a fuck. /11
They want the status world back, the one they thrive in. Hidden beneath warm images of smiling socialising people, travelling and going to gigs, eating out etc.
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