Corona: The Good Virus

Never again will all of us come this close. To being soldiers. To the enemy. A common enemy. Never again will the enemy be this perfect — invisible and universal. Never again will the war be this ideal — internal, silent, global, and rejuvenating, recreational without the destruction.

If this doesn’t cause us to think nothing can.

Think if this is evolution. Has the enemy evolved? Have we? Is evolution good? What new world is going to arise out of it? Is this war going to bring out the best in us? As a world or as an individual? What makes the individual the world? The economy. So, is this war going to bring out the best in our economy? How?

Think who’s winning. And who will ultimately win this war. Can it be a tie? Is it already a tie? Is the war over? Have both won? Have both sides made peace? What kind of a peace is it? An uneasy one or an everlasting one? Have we become one?

Think what kind of a war was it anyway? Why did it happen in the first place? Was it necessary? For evolution? Or was it avoidable? Could and should it have been avoided? Will and can we learn what to avoid and how unless we encounter it? Isn’t that how learning works? Isn’t that evolution?

Think if wars cause evolution, and this is the ultimate war, the war that ends all wars, what is the future of our evolution? What kind of wars will cause future evolution? Internal wars? Fought inside us? Is that where wars begin? Where they must end? And, therefore, also where they must be fought?

Think if the lesson to be learned is to be a good human? “Corona the good virus that taught us to be good humans”. That made us discover that we are the problem and we are the solution. That we individually are far more powerful than we collectively. That all our armies put together are hopelessly defenseless and we are our only defense. Not only our only defense, the only accurate, effective defense that all our governments put together, our representatives, the aggregate of our individual choices, aren’t as effective as us alone. That when it comes to life, we are our only hope. Without being individually responsible, willing, and strong, each one of us has a has an equal chance at being dead. If all of us hate death equally why should only some be made to love it, face it, meet it? Aren’t our soldiers the aggregate of our individual fears of death?

Think if it is possible to be individuals, not groups. If we can all be citizens of one world. With no countries, borders, armies, enmities, economies. If each one is better off doing their own thinking, and thinking about their own doing, then there is ultimate accountability, ownership, perfection. We get mad in groups. As is evident.

Think why why do we get mad in groups? What is the evidence? Well, what more than a pandemic do we need to see before you believe it?