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socio-economic, political and psychosomatic contractions and convulsions. But, worse than
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our response is our silence about it.
E.g. Le Monde Diplomatique – while examining the possible merge between tech oligopoly
and political monopoly – claims: “Political decisions have been central in shaping this tragedy
— from the destruction of animal habitats, to the asymmetric funding of medical research, to
the management of the crisis itself. They will also determine the world into which we emerge
after the worst is over.” Over the past 30 years, every critical conjecture had a similar epilogue:
pardon and enhancement for the capital, a burden and suppression for the labour. The C-19 is
no exception to it: Ever since early lockdowns of March 2020, the (gross) capital flows
unhindered while the labour, ideas and humans are under the house arrest. The XXI century
frontline is the right to health and labour, privacy and human rights. (LMD, IV20))
Still to be precise, the so-called virus pandemic brought nothing truly new to the already
overheated Sino-American relations and to the increasing binarization of world affairs: It only
amplified and accelerated what was present for quite some time – a rift between alienated
power centres, each on its side of Pacific, and the rest. No wonder that the work on the C-19
vaccine is more an arms race that it is a collaborative humanistics.

Would it be about an expansion of techno-totalitarian model of government as an alternative
to liberal democracy? Devolutionary singularisation into techno-feudalism? And, is now a time
to return to the nation-state, a great moment for all dictators-in-waiting to finally build a cult
of personality? Hence, will our democracy be electro-magnetised and vaccinated for a greater
good (or greedier ‘god’)?
This text examines a prehistory of that rift; and suggests possible outcomes past the current
crisis.

1 It is an established fact that the quintessence of Nazism was not Hitler and the circle of darkness around him. It
was rather a commonly shared ‘banality of crime’ atmosphere: an acceptance of ordinary village people living
next to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau … The day when questioning stops and silent acceptance becomes a ‘new
normal’ is a day when fascism walks in a big time. Or, manufacturing consent through choice architecture, of a
fear-imprisoned psychology. So, our C-19 response illustrates – the argument goes – nothing else but a social
pathology: the non-transparent concentration of power and our overall democracy recession – further bolstering
surveillance and social control systems; lasting consequences of cutbacks, environmental holocaust, privatisation
of key intergovernmental and vital national institutions, ill-fated globalisation on (overly allopathic, mandated
drugs -centred) healthcare, and luck of public data commons. Pandemic or plundermic …

Early lockdowns, mid-March 2020, were justified by a need to flatten the curve of the ‘sudden’ virus impact, since
there were no enough hospital beds. In the meantime, the lockdowns were extended and widened, curves not
arguable changed. Still, for the past 9 months, there is hardly any new hospital built in the EU although the non-
essential medical services are by and far suspended. Nor, there is any massive investment into general health
prevention. The only visible infrastructure growth is in 5/6G networks expansion.

Following a simple ratio that the one’s level of health is genetic expression of life-style choices made, it is no
surprise that there are also growing speculations if the lockdown – as the most notorious expression of monofocal
perspective and rejection to any scientific debate-based integrated judgment, is invasion or protection: Whether
the aim is a herd-immunity or herd loyalty (and to it related growing, yet still unrefuted, rumour that the eventual
C-19 vaccine might contain biohacking nano-properties which establish backdoor interface via extensively set
5/6G). And, if is there any back-to-normal exit from the crisis or will this disaster ‘turned into planetary terror,
through global coup d'état’ be exploited to further something already pre-designed (with a fear, not as a side-
effect, but rather as a manufactured tool to gain control) – more related to biotronics and demographics, than to
health and economics or any common social purpose.
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