For me, what gets highlighted in this issue is the tragic willingness of individuals to disown any stake in society and renounce any say in what our community actually looks like. It's as if people are cowardly resigned to some infantalizing nanny state which just imposes things on the people and acceptance/resistance is almost irrelevant, as long as you retain some dark hole to crawl into where you can yell and scream and curse about it for a few seconds inbetween work.
But more than this, it highlights how cancerous relativism really is and how it has seeped into every organ of society, dividing and conquering with supreme ease. A culture which has no substance or real meaning behind it, but a facade of legalism which barely masks a political system in paper thin material. Internally however there is nothing there; a system which cannot define itself in such a blackhole of uncertainty and which is accutely vulnerable to any external threats whatsoever - even starving sri lankans in a sinking wooden boat!
i have less and less confidence in the future