im kind of neutral on what [individual] people choose to do, but in terms of ethnography, youre about to see a lot of “i havent left my house for 9 months and just cancelled my holidays” posts, understand this is serving the role of penance in the modern religion of Science(tm)
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tbh i do what youre “supposed to” here (out of character but i have a medical thing that would make getting a positive test very inconvenient), with that said youre going to see a ton of people signaling how far beyond the requirements theyre going, and how “bad” it is etc [...]
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this is (for anyone new, its kind of 101) because as science has crossed over from “way to learn about the world” to “way to deduce what is meaningful and what has value”, its basically become a spirituality, and taken on all the things that entails, such as things like this.
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basically every spiritual system has some way of controlled suffering, taming the body, renunciation, fasting, its just part of any supraphysical system. it will be interesting to see this unfold over the holidays, “i didnt even get a tree”, “had my parents cancel their trip” etc
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