If we are trying to find our way back to Ithaca... I'm not sure we will get there or if rationalization was there in the first place.

以人类为中心的经济学所推动的环境变化无疑推动了流行病的频率。如果需要根本原因(而不是)，那么就在那里找到它。SARS CoV2引发的社会变革并不是由该病毒引起的。

我赞同艾瑞斯的观点，即对二元论的攻击会让人们失去身份政治的依靠。这种不平等根源于20世纪60年代(自由恋爱)，并在70年代(当时美国人的预期寿命出现分歧)实现，一直到80年代及以后……长期以来，伦理学和公共卫生的哲学诉求一直受到攻击。

What concerns me most is the same as 9/11 - when wise people warned of over reach and scapegoating. Where the Saudi family and Japanese paid for the initial gulf war... 9/11 opened the public dole to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. Follow the money.

Now with CoVid - the relief package for the neediest is corrupted to underwrite non essential infrastructure some of which will not be needed once recovery is in place. The deficits will not be righted in our children's children's lifetimes. I understand the need for relief but have no faith in the government to spend wisely.

This is what it was like in late antiquity perhaps. Science is the modern saving grace?... hardly. It would seem just when scientific and economic truth is most needed the community turns wholesale in on CoVid abandoning peer review or proper trials or judgment. Don't wear a mask, wear a mask, now data says this now that. Yes... science has always been this way ... but never this fast or hasty. Never have pre-print communication protocols dominated biology and turned public health on it's head. What is good for physics is not good for biology.

物理主义仍然存在。二元论已经死了。让我们在复活变得可信之前公开呼吁这种改变。无论是否用民间心理学来解释人格，身份政治都将主宰未来十年。现在就让哲学家们专心研究科学和经济吧。我们需要一个基础来发展。

Tamsin's political reversal is needed, but it didn't really happen. The rural vote got redder and the blue vote is frayed. This is a crisis that transcends ethics and conspiracy. Let's make each day philosophically germane... that is the clarion call of 2020. Fasten you seat belts or exercise your identity by not fastening them. There is a big 'P' Philosophical road less travelled. Let's choose that one. I look forward to a 2030 year in review ... void of this virus, the social contagion that goes along with it and hopefully a path from the very real darkness on the 2020 horizon.

Yeah,it has been pretty rough. My activities are still minimal. One thing I have resolved is this: we have to try harder, thiink better and cut the crap; doing the best we can with what we got and what we know.

Addendum:
2020 was a turbulent year. Yet, as with so much turbulence, if it does not kill, it strengthens. We are all living proof of this. A totality of circumstances may decide whether a thing is better viewed in the cool dim shadow of abstraction or the warm bright light of reality. One recipe I have heard is: keep calm and drive on. All good. I just need a new car...