Willem, you’re not alone in this and your observations are valid.

There’s certainly been a lot of Enemy acion and part of it is to cause hopelessness. Many are writing about coming Doom, so certain that whatever the enemy plans, will be. They are wrong.

Prophets of doom are trying to instill their own imaginations and fears on others. If they fail, and they will, they will just invent another doom coming. Fear sells.

But we don’t buy.

Yup. I don’t have a reason to visit airports myself, but it galls me that Normals still more or less automatically submit to the “security” nonsense with cheerful good will or resignation, and will do so until doomsday.

I certainly understand that travelers who only want to get from Point A to Point B and back with the least possible aggravation and hassles will naturally take the path of least resistance and comply with The Rules, regardless of how pointless, moronic, and onerous they may be.

Come to think of it, the only “pushback” one sees are the stories popular on Internet trash-tabloid sites and social media about passengers freaking out and acting out.

And even then, they’re not rebelling or “protesting” the bogus security procedures; they’re just being typically drunk or disorderly, or otherwise exhibiting the pathological behavior that arises in the air-travel behavioral sink.

Back? I think the Chinese government’s perspective is that Taiwan never left!

I expect they’ll try to make it illegal, but I thought it already was…
What’s the picture?

About 2 decades ago, a cartoonist (who depicted a glowing cigarette as his main character) found Bush the Elder too to be “ectoplasmic”. He designated him (Bush) with a mark somewhat like an asterisk with the centre removed.

Now, regardless of education, only those subservient enough get jobs they can live on. Education itself consists of
:- for those intending to serve the masters, political propaganda including neo-liberal economics
:- for the rest, totally subverted (e.g. science) or useless (e.g. fake history or philosophy) subjects that even displace practical primary education; in the most “free-market” countries, higher education of this sort is the way to enslave youth.