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It's become clear to me that about 50% of the people I know actually like the sense of being controlled/locked down and supposedly 'safe.' This is astonishing.
I keep waiting for the uprising, the I've-had-enough. But it's not coming. Just the opposite.
I keep waiting for the uprising, the I've-had-enough. But it's not coming. Just the opposite.
Friends who initially rankled at the prohibitions now give me a dead-eyed stare (over zoom) when I mention going out in public, sending kids to school, moving freely. They tell me that sounds 'dangerous.'
This is a known psychological syndrome, right? Someone, fix it, please.
This is a known psychological syndrome, right? Someone, fix it, please.
It's really scaring the hell out of me. These are smart people who used to have lives. One-time world travelers. Some have tons of money. They appear brainwashed now. They like the confines of their homes.
I'm seriously looking for other people who don't want that safe, controlled life and cannot find it in my city/state/peer group. Where is it? Is there a club? Are they in other states? Idaho...Texas? Maybe some Pacific island?
I'm at the point where I'd spend all my savings to get myself and my family to wherever that free place is. I wonder if this is how my grandmother felt fleeing Russia at 15, leaving her family, huddling in the hull of a ship for weeks. I get it now, Sadie. I understand.
