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A notably meaningless question. There was never one experience of "getting Covid", for a vaccinated person or anyone else. "The fully vaccinated" don't have a uniform way of being ill. On such hollow abstractions were lockdowns built. h/t @Medical_Nemesis.

For better and for worse, it is no longer possible as in the past to leave home and be elsewhere. We are all also ghosts, digitally haunting the homes we leave and haunted by those we have left.

But no longer - the omnipresent, pocket-size internet means there is no limit to the volume and frequency of possible contact with home. And as we crave contact, the possibility creates the expectation.

But you were still gone. Even if you wrote every day, called every day, most of that day, you were severed from home.

This changed gradually, as emerged regular postal services, the telegraph and the telephone. Leaving home came with the certainty that you would hear from home and home from you.

Once upon a time, when you left your home, you were gone. You would hear nothing from home, nor home from you, unless you returned, or someone was found to carry a message. .

And like all of the most momentous historical changes, it cannot be unthought, undone, forgotten, made irrelevant. So every problem that could only be solved by abolishing it is now with us, it seems, till the end of time.

The internet has in a fundamental way exiled silence from the world. It is the voice that is always speaking, the shop that is always open, the babble that never sleeps.

The internet has changed the nature of time and space. It has sucked into itself all media, new and old. It has, in many domains, transformed what was the only way to live into a difficult choice or an impossibility.

In this way, the internet can be likened to language itself—an omnipresent medium no longer at all separable from the message.

The internet is an omnipresent layer of reality, one through which we are constantly experiencing other layers and into which we are feeding our experiences of those layers.

And it seems to me that the pre-internet world was radically different, so different that even one's memories of it become bloodless, because one cannot really re-live being a pre-internet sort of man or woman.

I am quite old enough to remember the world before the internet perfectly well. I also remember that transition stage where the internet was an oddity whose attractions were moderate.

Barring surpises, it's increasingly clear that the most momentous historical development of my lifetime will have been the rolling out of the internet. .

And Vladan Jovanovic on the white tent's rising and ambiguous role in public spectacles.

This week in @CAmericain_mag —. Part 1 of Hendrik Wallat on the contradictory progressive embrace of unmitigated relativism and unmitigated scientism. .

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After all, the devil is most dangerous not when he appears as a hideous snake, but when he is transformed into an angel of light.

And it does all this without any wizards or severed heads or rasping demons. Indeed it hasn't so far even needed its own army of thuggish enforcers.