The pandemic has swept away a whole section of the world economy and killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. In these first weeks of this new year the convictions of some are opposed to the uncertainties of others. A world divided between those in favor of an antidote, any miracle cure that would put an end to this interminable crisis crossed by an upsurge in violence, exponential poverty and side effects of social and ideological characteristics. In echo to this position, the revulsion of a population which refuses to be considered as a guinea pig, refusing to comply with the dogmas of the moment even if it means feeling instrumentalized, guilty, stigmatized. marginalized. New choice, exceptional situation leaving a world that the invisible more than ever has made vulnerable. The positions of Dolly Parton, Mariah Carey, among other celebrities, and Eric Clapton describe with great fidelity these two very distinct currents, this cleavage, more than this, this antagonism between two populations which seem to have in common only the vision of a world that they no longer really understand, if not master.
The Walrus
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