The surreptitious and the invisible are defining the human landscape in ways we are only barely beginning to understand, anthonyted reports. There is a fast-moving, elusive new virus and the attitudes and fears that have emerged can be equally unsettling.
confounded opposing batters by throwing the fastest fastball they’d ever seen. “You can’t hit what you can’t see,” they would say.The surreptitious and the invisible are defining the human landscape during these weeks in ways we are only barely beginning to understand. There is, of course, a fast-moving and elusive new virus. But the attitudes and fears that have emerged in the battle against it can be equally unsettling.
“There’s this invisible threat of a virus, but then there are visible threats of me losing my job or my livelihood or the economic shutdown or my mental health because I’m isolated,” says“So I look at the fact that I have both a visible threat and an invisible one,” she says. “And people tend to respond to the visible threat.”“The whole world’s my hiding place. I can stand out there amongst them in the day or night and laugh at them.”The coronavirus is an apt adversary for our times.
To begin with, American life is a 400-year exercise in wrestling invisible ideals into something tangible — a functioning country and its laws. That country, shaped by visuals and concrete things and loud volumes, sits today at a particularly weird juncture when people with agendas use those loud volumes and sophisticated visuals to call even the most concrete things into doubt.
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