Pandemic, Meet Panopticon. Panopticon, Meet Pandemic.

At a time like this, we gotta stand together.

This is a story in which I cover a lot of ground. The reason I wrote it is because every time I have a conversation with a friend who is still on the fence about the high percentage of blatant billionaire abuse in what we are currently living through, it turns into a bit of a groundhog day. And so I do the dance, refer to the science I’ve known about for a year but the respectable media is only daring mention now (sideways and with disclaimers), etc. etc. Often, in the middle of the conversation, I find that the person I am talking to has created a psychographic image of a “lockdown skeptic” in their head, and then we have to unwrap the scroll and do the dance again. For example, I often find that because I am observing a clear attempt at global digital colonization, as destructive in its impact as the colonial ventures of the past, or because I don’t trust the famous tech billionaires with my mind or body—or because I haven’t forgotten the story of smallpox blankets (or what Hitler…