> "Modern democracies want arbitrary lockdown privileges..." that's arbitrarily specific. any state wants power, and lockdowns are exhibitions (and also legiti

> "Modern democracies want arbitrary lockdown privileges..." that's arbitrarily specific. any state wants power, and lockdowns are exhibitions (and also legitimizations) of power. the 'democracy' or 'modern' specifics add no additional information. what's more interesting about the 'modern democracy' bit is that power has found a way to subvert masses of people collectively in our modern democracies, and that's something, as citizens, we should be wary of and thinking deeply about.