The “new normal” does not exist, but the left has ideologized the pandemic to impose it on us
Let's start with an observation as banal as it is essential: there is no "new normal", unless we want to consider the deprivation of personal freedoms, the imposed social isolation, the castration of constitutional freedoms including private property, the 'business activities in addition to those of thought and information. There is no new normal, therefore, but they would like to silently impose it on us.
In March of last year, when the lockdown was injected with a tear on the eyelash and a dead voice, we all expected a quick solution to the health crisis and, in this perspective, we accepted a series of limitations in daily life, in relations with friends and relatives, as well as in relationships and in the management of the employment relationship; in that new context, not even imagined by the best James Cameron, the morbid will of a political party to ideologize the pandemic and exploit that "land cleared for the Left" (to quote Minister Speranza's best seller ) slowly made its way by building a new way of living.
Here smart working and social isolation have become the new mantra. We must work far away, we must not have social relations with anyone, and every moment of conviviality must be demonized, censored, punished, put to the public pillory; the people who live and come together have been transformed into the scapegoat for any guilt, and if the Covid contagion rises or falls, rest assured that you will find some liberal intellectual sage ready to point the finger, because the fault will always be of the aperitif, lunch by the sea, handshake rigorously abolished as not even in the original Achille Starace of the Regime, when it was considered a "softness for Anglo-Saxons".
So much is it, but for months most of the employees (public and private) have lived from meetings on the internet, work from home in their pajamas, and have lost contact with everyday reality made up of small exchanges of views with colleagues, of moments of simple working community that take place in an office; everything has been frozen, and the world – muffled by the pandemic – is completely stunned, since it is clear that the ultimate goal is to create a society that is always perfectly sanitized, measured, calculated, where every gesture out of line is destined for public mockery.
In short, we are not there. There is no reason to be happy thinking of being able to work in slippers at home, or dreaming of being able to do it perhaps from a beach, for the simple reason that remote work is hyper-connected and hyper-controlled, thanks also to impulse of algorithmic technology and more generally of digital technology, which have entered the management of employment relationships with both hands: the time spent on a file is checked, the duration of the connection, the employee's performance is instantly reported which, very simply , never stops working.
Other than laptop and Bermuda shorts by the sea! The best image is that of the Japanese Hikikomori , that is of those who remain closed in perennial isolation within the four walls of the house, and whose only light they see is the artificial one of their desk. A deep, intimate brutalization that penetrates into the innermost psychology of people.
Recently the Washington Post has also been interested in it , referring to the so-called “pandemic cocoon” also known by us as the “canary syndrome”. In summary, even when the pandemic is over, and the restrictions are removed, many will suffer the effect of not wanting to leave the cage – this time invisible – of their home safety, of the mask as a panacea for every problem and disease, trying a profound discomfort for the rediscovered social relationships: getting out of the cocoon, so to speak, may be more complex than expected, because the unilateral communication to which we have been (over) exposed has stubbornly convinced us that the world in which we must live is a distance of 2 meters from your neighbor, whether it is a friend, relative, or spouse does not matter.
The new normal, we said. It just doesn't exist. Let's regain possession of our everyday life, instead, made up of handshakes (and not of greetings with the elbow), of meetings in the office (and not of webinars in briefs), of words exchanged at a table or at the counter of a bar (and not of meals consumed at home, after an online order): we return to appropriate our individual and collective freedoms, claiming the right to think, to choose, to act. Let's go back to normal, so as not to regress to the stone age. Let us return to free men.
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