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The unbearable irrelevance of fanatics

The coro-doomsday has stunned the mainstream bringing various fringes to the limelight. In celebratory mood, tourism-haters, elitist pseudo-revolutionaries, agoraphobics and misanthropic degrowthists, to die-hard fans of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" to alt-right racist conspiracists, UFOlogists and so on, a pluralistic cacophony of "we told you so". Nope, you told us nothing and you still do not have anything to tell us. Your theories are "not even wrong",  your thinking is unoriginal, self-defeating, pessimistic, malthusian and discounts the propensity of humans to evolve and progress in the face of natural adversity. Yes, Marx at 202 years old is always relevant, especially if we read between the lines, but so are all other great philosophers from A to Z, from Aristotle to Zizek (pun intended). But if miraculously reincarnated, none of these greats would last a week as pandemic-era prime-ministers. Aristotle would start wars by calling all our neighbours barbarians, Pythagoras would not allow anyone to speak (for the first 10 years), Plato would attempt to become a dictator, Marx would be lost from sight devouring epidemiological information on the Internet, and Zizek would just make everyone crazy. We do not have to worry too much about the cacophony, it will wither out as normality returns. This adversity will help us progress one more time and - giant asteroid willing - one inch closer to the full humanization of humanity, a long process that started a few million years ago. The pressing question -  and we need all rational minds to ponder on this be they pro-market or pro-state - is what should we do NOW about/for tourisms' unemployed/underemployed millions? Innovative ideas are needed and fast.

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