COVID did not make people insane.
It just revealed who already was.
It pulled back the curtain on the neighbours who reported each other for walking in the park. The colleagues who gleefully enforced every new restriction with a zeal that had nothing to do with public health. The friends who cut off people they had known for decades for asking a single question. The family members who chose compliance over love without a moment of hesitation.
The authoritarian instinct was always there.
The cruelty was always there.
The desperate need to belong to the side with the loudest voice and the official approval, that was always there too.
COVID did not create any of it.
It just gave it permission.
And what was revealed in those years about human nature, about the ease with which ordinary people abandon principle under social pressure, about how quickly a society will turn on its own, that is something we should be studying far more seriously than we are.
Because the conditions that brought it out once can be created again.
And the people who showed you who they were during that time?
Believe them.
@PinstripeDerek 3,4,7,2
Ruth Gehrig obvious reasons
Mantle was before my time . but based on how every boomer I know reveres him above all the others from that time period,he was the most impactful.
Without Jeter I doubt we have the 90โs dynasty.