Our last chance to love is right now. Part one
During a pandemic, we can see who is valuable to society and who isn’t. Not in terms of capital or money or when the camera is rolling. Crisis gets a well deserved lousy rap. However, it’s times where pessimists and realists can be in awe. Due to humans’ ability to do good innately coming out during a crisis. Unfortunately, the crisis also creates situations for the opportunist. And this is why now may be our last chance to love.
The world will be different once the virus becomes contained, whether we believe it or not. Just as homeland security changed this country after 9/11 and millions of veterans committed suicide. While never proven right, the main reason for war was the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
For the last several decades, we have been incited by fear from terrorists outside of the country. Today begins a new era where the enemy could be anyone, as close as someone you live with.
They don’t have to wear a turban, talk a foreign language, or dress differently. While social distancing is an effective way to contain the virus, it also is a programming society ethically. Furthermore, it reinforces our caution to develop meaningful relationships. Instead, we become more dependent on technology.
We check our t.v. And news to get the latest updates on the coronavirus death toll and infection rate, which country or city is it in now. Is it affecting this race more or this one we ask ourselves? All in the somewhat safety of our homes. As if people weren’t desperate for attention already, as #stayhome goes on longer, more people will do outrageous things for attention.
With Bernie dropping out of the race, how will potential candidates hold rally’s with social distancing in order? There are so much data politicians will be able to connect with more voters than rally attendee anyway.
A tiger recently was diagnosed with Coronavirus, while Samsung announces its robot dog. Dog’s have been the go-to substitute for human interaction, but apparently, it ran its course. Possibly dogs are too much maintenance and or remind people sometimes of babies or humans.
Whatever the reason is authentic relationships are being avoided like the plague. And this is why now maybe our last chance to love right now.
Remember how united the country became during 9/11? More people have been affected by the Coronavirus and died, yet the unity feels absent. Society wasn’t as consumed by technology as it is today. Granted, the enemy was visible, and the attack on the towers felt as if it were literally in our backyards.
Inflated or not, the infection and death rate of the Coronavirus is serious. Yet if we’re honest with ourselves, the unity amongst us is lacking. Compared to 2001. Contribute it to social distancing if you want, but this is where society is already heading.
How can we unify with people if we have to distance ourselves from them physically? And it’s enforced by law.
Although it is more straightforward to get in touch with people more than ever, Love is out of sight out of mind in our instant gratification society. By the time the next crisis occurs, our community will gladly accept selfless driving cars, robot pets, robot sex dolls. Automation will become more prevalent in our society. Love, as we know, it will regress and transform into the plague.
We’ve become lazy in our thinking, which will transfer to our hearts. People aren’t becoming more accepting and patient in relationships because technology is making things easier. Instead, divorce rates are higher than ever before. Women are placing more importance on a career rather than family life.
There is a gender war in this country, and the government favors the women, while the women claim the patriarchy is against them. Women initiated an overwhelming majority of divorces, and men lose the vast majority of child custody cases. Men also pay child support for children that aren’t theirs sometimes as well.
Rather than using the internet to leverage our talents and skills, We use it to bury our insecurities further while seeking validation. People are more concerned about not staying at home than the victims of the Coronavirus.
While more people have died and been affected by the Coronavirus, there is less unity. The evolution of the internet since 9/11 has changed how we respond to the crisis to the point where we don’t even realize it. Prior to and during 9/11, there was an innocence to our spirits that wasn’t tainted with the internet. We had to have the courage to build relationships rather than become sensitive to things we didn’t agree with.
In conclusion, Because there were no other options, we were able to empathize better as well. There were fewer distractions to fill our confirmation biases. Perhaps the most significant attack wasn’t a plane crashing into the twin towers or a virus pandemic. Maybe it was the attack on our moral integrity that causes us to project blame on everyone and everything around us. And this is why our last chance to love is right now.
Next week, Automation invades the nation and the great divide, pt two of our last chance to love.
How are you choosing to love during this pandemic? Let us know in the common section below