We live in ordinary times
Spare the fundamentals, snare the fundamentalist! Homo sapiens began their evolution chain as liberal foragers. Liberal instincts dominated our social precincts. With experience, home sapiens realized that they had a higher probability of getting killed by the recalcitrant fellow homo sapiens than by a ferocious feline! Their survival instincts caused them to sacrifice “individual liberties” to create a society with a set of shared values. They adorned uniforms, saluted a flag, inherited occupation, paid extortion money called taxes with a hope that when apocalypse hits us, the guy who stays next door will come and stand in front of our door as we have shared set of values. A social and emotional insurance of sorts. In our many millennium of unchallenged domination of earth, we seem to have forgotten that we are dependent on our neighborhoods for our survival. This pandemic is a harsh reminder that we are a subset of a commune. Community is helping us stay immune, while...