The Faceless People
April 2, 2020
IN JAPAN, they wear face masks all the time. Every human being is a biological weapon. The mask attests to a physical version of original sin.
I don’t envy the Japanese. I wonder how many of them keel over every year from the cumulative ill effects of living in a world without smiles. And noses. And cheeks. And chins.
Better to be unhealthy than live without faces. Beautiful faces, ugly faces, grumpy faces, lumpy faces. The face is the mirror of the soul. Sometimes it is the mask of the soul. There are things more important than survival.
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Zeno writes:
“I don’t envy the Japanese. I wonder how many of them keel over every year from the cumulative ill effects of living in a world without smiles. And noses. And cheeks. And chins.”
Besides forcing people to wear such masks, which I also find aesthetically unpleasant and very un-Western (we like to see facial expression, that’s why we also don’t like full burkas covering women’s faces), I think there is a general push by the elites to make us all “Asians” or “Asian-like”: governments becoming more authoritarian, instituting [Chinese] social credit, promoting mass conformism, promoting bugs as food to fight “climate change” (insects are very popular as food in some regions of Asia), making people live in perpetual “social distancing”, like the “hikikomori“, perhaps with “social media friends” and “virtual girlfriends” instead of real companions. The future is Asian.