I’m so glad there are more and more people rejecting the lockdown lifer creed of hiding inside forever until all is “completely safe.”

There’s going to be a big push in the next few weeks as the Delta variant becomes more prevalent to force us all back indoors, cowering in fear, flinching from the light, and we should be uncompromising in standing against this utter insanity. We should resist with any means at hand. I know that many people crave the sense of living in a siege mentality, of hunkering down as the threat amasses outside. It’s their way of feeling powerful.

But it’s a coward’s form of power, a loser’s last bastion of feeling potent and virtuous. It’s a rout and retreat framed as a victory, “defeating the virus.” Motherfucker, you ain’t defeating shit except your own life and your own well-being.

I do wonder how much of this was a trial run for the pod life and the greater social control that many feel will have to come about to combat climate change. I bet quite a lot. But that matters only a little. What’s relevant is we mock and defy this mentality and dogma wherever it manifests, because it does and will aim to eradicate all that is best about life and the world. This desire for withdrawal and attempting to force it on everyone is nothing but an intensification and re-justification of the long-term liberal war against pleasure itself.