Minihell.
Start using it.
Also, although I think birdemic is here to stay, it occurred to me today that another good nickname would be the Cyranovirus -- since its main effect seems to be to make people's noses grow.
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Following up on the idea that the pecked are no longer alone in their bodies , reader Ben Pratt has brought to my attention these remarks by... -
Disclaimer: My terms are borrowed (by way of Terry Boardman and Bruce Charlton) from Rudolf Steiner, but I cannot claim to be using them in ... -
That's Bruce's coinage, from an email, though likely one that's been independently invented by others as well. I thought it was ...
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CS Lewis (in That Hideous Strength) pointed out the ways that life-preservation, health and therapy could be deployed to 'justify' unbounded oppression and torment.
This is given a new value-inversion aspect when the 'therapeutic' measures on average actually harm health/ cause death and are universal (at least among the mass majority) - rather than targeted against dissenters.
So yes - very much a Minihell.
That's very good! But Minihell is somewhat misleading seeing as this whole fiasco is rapidly blossoming to become a veritable macrohell.
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