The sheer joy of the children, upon learning the mask rules are done:
The all-positive unifying stance and infectious liberated feeling, from a somewhat too-apolitical young professional:
The best-case scenario for the tough reckoning that awaits us, from a politically astute writer: James Howard Kunstler. (FWIW, I don’t know much about Kunstler outside of a few editorials, but here’s an image.)
The cry for repentance and apology, from a nurse wounded by her mandated firing, and shaken by the media misrepresentation of the truckers:
The near-despair of an early-on questioner of the “vaxxes,” and fervent believer in the power of truly scientific shared inquiry, Heather Heying, at the many betrayals of her ideal over the last two years, and the coming season of gaslighting and repositioning by many of those guilty of this betrayal. Her whole Darkhorse Podcast conversation (held two weeks ago) with Bret Weinstein about this dynamic (17:00 to 50:00) is insightful, but listen especially to her words at 27:33-30:40 about her “deep disappointment with people I thought were honorable, brave, insightful, and full of wisdom.” Feels like her Enlightenment-like faith in the society-educating beneficence of scientific reasoning has been chastened a bit, and that she’s feeling the need for a pathway to forgiveness, or for some way of dealing with the pain of it all:
One model for healing and renewal in the long-term, is this one conveyed by the artistry of director/screenwriter Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, composer Max Richter, and (indirectly) of painter Gerhard Richter:
To help you guess at the significance of that scene, here’s a still from the larger film, Never Look Away. But you really must see it. Once you do, hear what Titus, Flagg Taylor, and I said about it here.
And to exit this little gallery representing the cross-currents of feeling experienced at the moment of liberation, since the fight isn’t actually over yet, here’s a unique model of manly non-violent civil disobedience, articulated by one Canadian trucker-protestor, “Mr. Finn,” with a little help from George Lucas: