Virus Diary Day 21 (entry 7) 61st Day of Confinement, Abu Dhabi Virus as Labyrinth (Author's note: the series was to be a synchronous, daily log of the existential effects of the COVID-19 virus from Abu Dhabi. Due to personal events, the diary took a two week break, and is planned for a minimum 30 entry series, but synchrony is no longer implied.) Another day in lockdown. Another day, held in place. But with each day, new developments unveiling chaos and/or indeterminacy. But the metaphor for the human condition resembles the labyrinth (the Christian one, not the classical one with the Minotaur.) The idea is walking the path; there is not wrong turn, but it is a process of indeterminacy. Although there is a length to the journey, there is an end, to go to the next stage of things. This causes me to return to the idea of�Fukuyama's "End of History" falling prey to Baudillard's "Illusion of the End". The process has an end, but the days go on without a sort of predictability, and this is the issue, and this is what creates the existential irritation. but this has also proven many things; it has proven that the procession of time has proven that metapolitical events can happen giving�enough will. This also suggests that the Anthropocenne can be changed as well into another era. But as this post does discursively, the teleology is that of the hamster wheel; running in place, because that's what you do in these situations - but then in the Buddhist sense, perhaps this is the working out of karma as a function of entropy. Sitting here in the capsule, breathing, spending time through the new Matrix of relations. Tomorrow is another day. �
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