Ritafee
Is Being Human
In the words of the World Health Organization (WHO)Medical martial law????? Oh please do explain.
“overrule of existing legislation or (individual) human rights in order to quell a viral outbreak"
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In the words of the World Health Organization (WHO)Medical martial law????? Oh please do explain.
More than thirty years ago I was handcuffed by the Winnipeg police and dragged from the public square. This because I was holding up a small square of paper. On that paper I had printed these words: “The Police State is Coming!” The actions of the police seemed to verify the proposition represented in my symbolic action. This rooted in my life long inquiry into prophetic narratives.It used to be pretty easy for me to accept that society was basically on the right track, that science was solving our problems, that modern medicine was conquering one disease after another and that we were 'actually' progressing.
This post from six years ago is consistent with what I am saying now and will continue to say until I am silenced:
“In the sixth grade I wondered why it seemed necessary to confine students by routines of conformity. Born Friesian my heart was, and continues to be, wholly grounded in and oriented to freedom. I resisted. I was punished, labelled and sent on my way.
I continually wonder why the mythology of progress continues to hold sway in popular imagination. We see a smoker and we warn against the habit and its consequence. But dare warn against enlightened human being driving itself and its environment to the brink of irreversible consequence for the sake of power and profit.
I wonder how different our civilization is from any of the civilizations risen and fallen along the historic way? Are we to imagine ourselves immune to the effect of our action on our context? Where they perished under the sign of hubris, may we expect to prosper?”