The Bodies of Others; The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human

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The Bodies of Others is about how we came to the harrowing civilizational crossroads at which we find ourselves - engaged in a war against vast impersonal forces with limitless power over our lives and which threaten the freedoms we have always taken for granted. In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Naomi Wolf shows how these forces -- from Big Tech and Big Pharma to the CCP and our oligarchical elites -- seized upon two years of COVID-19 panic in sinister new ways, to not only undermine our Republic but to fundamentally reorient human relations. Their target is humanity itself. Their end goal is to ensure that our pre-March 2020 world is gone forever. Irretrievable. To be replaced with a world in which all human endeavor-all human joy, all human fellowship, all human advancement, all human culture, all human song, all human drama, all worship, all surprise, all flirtation, all celebration-is behind a digital paywall. A world in which we will all have to ask technology's permission to be human. But we, the people of the world, did not vote to abandon our old systems and destroy our old ways so absolutely they could never be recovered. And Wolf shows how, against overwhelming odds, we still might win. Title Copyright Acknowledgments Contents Introduction Chapter One: March 2020: “Lockdown” Chapter Two: “Uniform Safety for Everyone” Chapter Three: Understanding the Criminals Chapter Four: “Standing Together by Staying Apart” Chapter Five: The “New Normal” Chapter Six: How Emergency Policy is Made Chapter Seven: The Unverifiable Pandemic Chapter Eight: “Lockdown” is not “Quarantine”: What “Restrictions” Really Achieve Chapter Nine: Frozen with Fear: A Cult Takes Shape Chapter Ten: “The Software of Life” Chapter Eleven: How Masks Suppress the Human Advantage Chapter Twelve: The Tech Bubble: Vast Wealth via Killing Human Competition Chapter Thirteen: “Vaccine Passports” and the End of Human Liberty Chapter Fourteen: Switching You Off Chapter Fifteen: Theft Chapter Sixteen: Heroes Chapter Seventeen: Cruelty, Cults, Coercion Chapter Eighteen: Pandemic Without End Chapter Nineteen: Evil Beyond Human Imagination Chapter Twenty: The New Authoritarians vs. The Individual Conclusion: Resistance Endnotes