From subjects to sovereigns: a short manifesto for the 2020's
It seems abundantly clear to me that there is no place for individual responsibility in the post-COVID world. This pandemic has had governments all over the worlds deciding for us whether we’re allowed to go to school or not, whether we can go to the gym and even deciding for us what goods and stores are “essential”. However, I believe the people currently thinking they can rule over us overlook one critical point: freedom isn’t something that can be taken away from the people by any given instance.
The sweeping measures that have been put in place to control this supposed deadly virus have had little regard for the health of the economy and the mental health of the people affected by them. The Dutch government has repeatedly stated that the measures are primarily in place to prevent strain on the medical branch. In nearly a year’s time, they apparently haven’t thought of expanding the capacity of hospitals. At the absolute best this is incompetence and at the absolute worst something much more nefarious is going on. People much more educated than me have already explained in detail how the pandemic coincides with the greatest wealth transfer in history.
We are being told that there is a light at the end of the tunnel: the vaccine. Well, I don’t believe for one second that lockdowns will end once this hastily-developed vaccine is widely distributed. Call me paranoid. Here’s what I think we should do to make lockdowns end: disobey.
As long as the government sees that we are complying to whatever they impose on us, they will continue to do so. History has shown us time and time again that freedom taken is not simply given back. As soon as we, the people, decide that enough is enough and that we are sick of lockdowns, the government won’t have a choice. They don’t rule over us, they don’t own us.
Perhaps the great wheels of history have already turned and this neo-feudalism will be put in place no matter what, but I don’t plan on being a subject for the rest of my life. Man chooses. I know that only physical fitness will save me from any virus in the end, and I tell my peers too that pursuing physical health is the only thing that will save them. Don’t stuff yourself with fried factory-farmed meat and sit in front of a computer screen all day. You can only save yourself in this regard: the elderly with one foot in the grave already don’t have much more time anyways, nor can you curb the monolithic force of natural selection to spare the terminally ill and the obese. Call me heartless, but in the end we will lose people along the way.
Take the reins into your own hands and be the change you want to see. Every couple of generations it seems that freedom is lost: we are here to take it back.
