[Xmca-l] Covid as World Perezhivanie?

[Greg Thompson]

I'm wondering about Andy's suggestion that covid-19 is a (or maybe "is
creating a"?) world perezhivanie. That seems a really rich suggestion but
I'm not sure how many of us on the list really understand what he means by
this.

Andy tends to just tell me to go read more and so I'm wondering if someone
else might be willing to take a stab at explaining what he might mean.

Also, as a critical intervention, I am wondering whether covid-19 is the
"same" for everyone. We have folks in the U.S. who think it is basically
just a typical flu that has been turned into a political tool to attack the
current president. Or does that not matter for perezhivanie?

(and just to be clear, my question is not whether or not this is true or
right or beautiful to think this way; my question is whether or not this is
how people are actually experiencing the world since I assume that this is
what perezhivanie is supposed to be "getting at". Or am I misunderstanding
perezhivanie?)

So is there really a shared perezhivanie here?
(Is The Problem of Age the place to look for answers?)

But if no one wants to take this up (perhaps too much ink has been spilt
over perezhivanie?), that's fine too.

Cheers,
greg


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