This an essay I published earlier on Medium (I have closed my account since). It was first published on June the 21st 2020. It appears to be a good time because of the opening of the trial of D. Chauvin. The COVID19 crisis is not a turning point but an upside-down point. The long period of lockdown, which is extreme immobility has awaken us from the big nap. The new normal appears very strange, nightmarishly strange. The thesis I develop in this article is that the new normal is the dual of the old normal. It is shocking because it is easy to confuse duality with symmetry. The most natural property of symmetry is that it is involutive. If you take the symmetrical of the symmetrical you obtain the original. It is not necessarily the case with duality. I am advocating, for instance, that Antifa as a doctrine is the dual of fascism, and the anti-Antifa may also be a version of fascism too.
The Old and the New Normal
The Old and the New Normal
The Old and the New Normal
This an essay I published earlier on Medium (I have closed my account since). It was first published on June the 21st 2020. It appears to be a good time because of the opening of the trial of D. Chauvin. The COVID19 crisis is not a turning point but an upside-down point. The long period of lockdown, which is extreme immobility has awaken us from the big nap. The new normal appears very strange, nightmarishly strange. The thesis I develop in this article is that the new normal is the dual of the old normal. It is shocking because it is easy to confuse duality with symmetry. The most natural property of symmetry is that it is involutive. If you take the symmetrical of the symmetrical you obtain the original. It is not necessarily the case with duality. I am advocating, for instance, that Antifa as a doctrine is the dual of fascism, and the anti-Antifa may also be a version of fascism too.