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If you don't find our present dire enough to warrant masking, then where is your bar?

Where was it in 2020? 2021? ...2022? .....2023?

When did it shift, & why?

What did you read/who told you something that moved the needle? Does it hold up to scientific or your own moral scrutiny, considering?
We can admit that the feeling of shame can not only be constructive, but also deeply corrosive—whether one internalizes shame or is prompted to the emotion by others’ disapproval. But so, too, are some of the moral and personal failures that give rise to that disapproval. In some cases, these are poisonous enough to merit the harsh medicine of shame and shaming. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? Very few of us are moral saints—certainly not me. Unlike everlasting, lofty, abstract principles, we who try feebly to live up to them down in the muck of reality face mucky obstacles: we get tired, impatient, envious, and angry. Our values and principles ask more than most of us are able to give—if they don’t, they are probably too weak to be worth holding. But we don’t have to celebrate our failures or, worse still, confuse them with our successes. This is one valuable function of shame: it reminds us of who we want to be when we fall short, a goalpost that is necessarily anchored to the lofty height that our conduct fell beneath. We also encourage and defend these general social standards when we hold others to them, and not just ourselves.
October 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I cannot fully express how exciting it is to see government leaders hire real experts. Heck yeah. ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I love this! I didn’t know they were kind of like passport stamps for skating rinks. ❤️ 🛼
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Immediately put it on hold at the library. I know virtually nothing about this so will be a good and informative read!
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM