Conclusion

What is it about?

This book began by observing that the current crisis had the “potentially” salutary effect of revealing us to ourselves. But it is also all too possible to evade this revelation and make of the pandemic just another motive for escape from ourselves and an occasion for denying or ignoring the disturbing fact of our precarious existence. This is especially true as the trauma engendered specifically by the Covid-19 pandemic now begins to recede into the past. Covid has not really changed us and the structure of our society, even though it has accelerated certain tendencies such as the drive to digitalization and to more governmental controls over every sector of human life. 1 New measures such as vaccination passports for travel and perhaps even for going to restaurants, cinemas, and theaters, with attendant obligations of having cellular telephones with surveillance applications making individuals traceable in every aspect of their lives in public and private, have become considerably more palpable looming on the horizon of the future.

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