On a scale of 1-10, 10 being masks are intolerably awful to wear, and 1 being “I actually like it,” I’m probably around an 8 or 9. And yet I STILL truly do not understand people who have turned opposition to masks into their own personal George-Orwell-In-Catalonia Moral Struggle.
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Yes definitely. But some Talismans I get! This one I don’t.
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It's the single-most visible intervention or symbol of this pandemic, it involves the human face, and one over which there were a lot of fights on all spheres. Not at all surprised there is so much psychic energy spent on it as a talisman—rather than seeing it like a mere tool.
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as a longtime proponent of masks as both tools and talismans, yep. It’s actually been weird watching politicians use our phrases (“mask up” for example).https://youtu.be/vai3yXT2CZA
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I’m a professor of religion and I don’t buy this as having anything to do with the resistance of most anti-maskers.
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I didn't know you were also a poet,
@zeynep.
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- "Father, I lost the talisman you gave me." - "It doesn't matter son. You'll learn that a man's true talisman are his head, his heart, and his hands." (From "Thorgal", an 80s fantasy comic)
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Answers like this are why I embroidered a Zeynep patch for my pandemic art jacket.
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That is a big part of what annoys me. I am about a 9 on
@chrislhayes' scale but had no trouble with them in 2020, or in contexts where they've been thought through. But I have no patience for symbolism, message-sending, or indeed doing things for the sake of doing something. -
She’s saying it’s both, you’re ignoring the tool part and thinking it’s only a talisman.
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