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SIGN OF THE BLACKSPOT

Weekly transmissions from Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment

No one was prepared for this. Not the banks, not the government, not the hospitals.

Neither were we. But we're not giving in — No, the opposite! Our web and social-media presence is going into all-out attack mode.

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In the end, most revolutions take off in times of crisis. Perhaps what we're witnessing right now — the catastrophic failure of the status quo — will spring revolutionary opportunities for radical change, the likes of which we've been calling for since Day One. Stay tuned ...

Surviving the Plague

"In the cold autumn of 1629, the plague came to Italy. Ordinary life was suspended during the epidemic. When it finally ended, about 12 per cent of the population of Florence had died. This was a considerably lower mortality rate than other Italian cities: in Venice 33 per cent of the population; in Milan 46 per cent; while the mortality rate in Verona was 61 per cent. Was the disease less virulent in Florence or did the Sanità’s measures work?"

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Hope in the Time of COVID-19

Does the contagion have a silver lining? "Today’s emerging pandemic could help catalyze an urgently needed tipping event in humanity’s collective moral values, priorities and sense of self and community. It could remind us of our common fate on a small, crowded planet with dwindling resources and fraying natural systems."

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