The Vaccine Moment, part three
Part One and Part Two can be found here . The Vaccine Moment, part three Or: How to think about Klaus Schwab Paul Kingsnorth The coming ‘Internet of Bodies’, according to the Rand Corporation . Everybody knows that the plague is coming Everybody knows that it's moving fast Everybody knows that the naked man and woman Are just a shining artifact of the past Everybody knows the scene is dead But there's gonna be a meter on your bed That will disclose What everybody knows - Leonard Cohen, 1988 When is a conspiracy theory not a conspiracy theory? The answer to this question has a bearing on the shape of the coming world. In this covidian miniseries, I’ve been writing about the stories we tell about the pandemic. In the first essay , I explained why I had grown to disbelieve much of the official story - what I called the Narrative - about the virus and the response to it. For me, the straws that broke the back of this story were the Austrian lockdown of the ‘unvaxxed’, and ...