> One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?
Don't look after yourself, that's a job for your betters!
> Jane – not her real name – is nervous about speaking to me. She has asked that I don’t identify her or the small, south-coast Devon town in which she lives. “I’m feeling disloyal, because I’m talking about people I’ve known for 30 to 40 years,” she says.
Those are honest pangs of guilt. If you read the article Jane's friends didn't really move much, Jane spiraled down the Blue-Anon rabbit hole to full NPC conformity. If you don't want to fight Russia until the last drop of Ukrainian blood has been spilled to prop up the current order you are a Putin ally, because it's impossible that I'm a disgusting sub who found a global-dom that's always going to make my collar tighter.