[tyrrvk]

I'm surprised by the hand wringing angst at this "unproductive member of society". The article was a lark - a bit of exposition on thinking about things differently. Does the author say you need to lay about? No, he just described what it means for him. Is he privileged? Sure, I suppose. We just went through a global pandemic - cut society some slack. This anger at someone expressing an opinion sounds a lot like fox news faux drama.

[nate_meurer]

I think a lot of the tense reactions come from the notion that governments have leveraged the opinions you speak of to impose extremely illiberal sanctions on liberties we used to take for granted, such as telling us whether and how we are allowed to see our own families.