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/158/ Three Article: Cosmopolitan Austerity & Control (Patreon)

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2020-11-03 08:01:00
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2026-06
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In this latest Three Articles, we discuss cosmopolitanism, the end of austerity (maybe?) and social control in the pandemic.

The paywalled articles are available as attachments on patreon.comReadings:

Is cosmopolitanism our destiny?, Aris Roussinos, Unherd

Meet the Philosopher Who Is Trying to Explain the Pandemic, Christopher Caldwell, NYT

Global economy: the week that austerity was officially buried, Chris Giles, FT

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Sensible Captain

Phil, the WHO tried to rename “social distancing” into “physical distancing” (sometime around he end of March), it was in the news. But it never caught on.

Joel

Phil gives the game away when he gives his “obvious” prescription that we should focus virus-prevention measures on the elderly and not try to eliminate the spread of the virus through the young and middle-aged healthy population. He bases this on his own technical analysis that the harm of the virus for most of the population is negligible or at least not worth the costs of the short-term lockdowns and government mobilization it would take to eliminate community spread. So far from being an alternative to a technocratic legitimization, it is simply an assertion of an alternative technical analysis (an analysis that, while having much support among the highest levels of the conservative UK and US governments, is not very compelling). You see something similar in climate politics when degrowth advocates rail against "technological solutions," but what they propose are actually alternative technological solutions based on their own technical analysis which they claim necessitates austerity. Crankery, either in its conservative or postmodernist varieties, isn't a solution to the problem of technocracy, as the crank is simply a failed technocrat.

Sam

Don’t let them bully you Alex. I oft ride my toboggan to the local beer hall where me and my brothers sing Material Girl, the song of my people

Daniel L

I don't really understand all this anti-lockdown stuff. Here in Australia it has been a success, combined with closed borders. The unemployment benefit was doubled and suicides have actually decreased on last year. I think it has been particularly difficult for international students and temporary migrants as they have disgracefully not had access to any support, but for the majority of the population lockdowns haven't been a big issue... They've kept the population safe from Coronavirus.