pandemic 2

The ongoing spread of the coronavirus epidemic has
also triggered a vast epidemic of ideological viruses
which were lying dormant in our societies: fake news, paranoiac
conspiracy theories, explosions of racism. The wellgrounded
medical need for quarantines found an echo in
the ideological pressure to establish clear borders and to
quarantine enemies who pose a threat to our identity.
But maybe another and much more beneficent ideological
virus will spread and hopefully infect us: the
virus of thinking of an alternate society, a society beyond
nation-state, a society that actualizes itself in the forms
of global solidarity and cooperation. Speculation is widespread
that coronavirus may lead to the fall of Communist
rule in China, in the same way that, as Gorbachev himself
admitted, the Chernobyl catastrophe was the event
that triggered the end of Soviet Communism. But there
is a paradox here: coronavirus will also compel us to
re-invent Communism based on trust in the people and
in science.
In the final scene of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill:
Volume 2, Beatrix disables the evil Bill and strikes him
with the “Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique,”