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  • April 23, 2020 at 8:05 am #113952
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    Link:http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55081.htm
    The city in a time of plague

    History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers
    By Pepe Escobar

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    ……In his book, Boucheron writes about political fear before it is engulfed by biological fear. Nothing could be more contemporary.

    In Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Bad Government, the court of bad justice is governed by a devil holding a poisoned chalice (today that would be the “crowned poison” – or coronavirus). The devil’s eyes are crossed and one of his feet is over a goat’s horns. Floating above his head we find Avarice, Pride and Vainglory (match them with contemporary political “leaders”). War, Treason, and Fury sit to his left (the US Deep State?) and Discord, Fraud and Cruelty on his right (casino capitalist financialization?). Justice is bound, and her scales have fallen. Talk about an allegory of the “international community.”

    Boucheron pays special attention to the…see link…”

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