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Is the self isolation a torture or a moment of truth? As all our poor planet I'm on the self-isolation now. It continues for only a week in my country, cause our epidemiological situation is not as awful as in the most of european countries. But I already feel internal shifts in my psychological condition as well as shifts in digital space, which becomes more real and alive than our phisical world. Now I understand, that the covid-19 became a frightening and cruel, but very effective engine for moving of all our communicational, professional and educational processes into the virtual dimention. Neither new technologies, neither scientists or politicals, but virus has shown us how small our world and how stong our links at this tiny blue globe. The 2020-quarantine is not just a silent isolation, but it's a kind of scary laboratory, where people arrange new digital communities, many of which are pretty closed and exclusive. And although digital space seems to be only possible topos of real democracy and horisontal relationships, now we can see how new hierarchies occure in spheres of art, politics, economics etc. So there are a lot of new questions. Will we be visible in this new digital world? What kind of people will be endowed with a power in it? How can we catch the moment and join to this new influential communities? "May you live in intresting times" as old chinese curse tells.

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Is the self isolation a torture or a moment of truth?

As all on our poor planet, I'm on the in self-isolation now. It continues for It's been only a week in my country, because our epidemiological situation is not as awful as in the most of European countries. But I already feel internal shifts in my psychological condition, as well as shifts in digital space, which becomes more real and alive than our phisical [spelling] world. Now I understand, that the COVID-19 became a frightening and cruel, but very effective engine for moving of all our communicational, professional and educational processes into the virtual dimention [spelling]. Neither new technologies, neither nor scientists or, nor politicals politicians, but the virus has shown us how small our world is and how stong [spelling] our links at on this tiny blue globe are. The 2020-quarantine is not just a silent isolation, but it's a kind of scary laboratory, where people arrange new digital communities, many of which are pretty closed and exclusive. And although digital space seems to be the only possible topos [spelling - types?] of real democracy and horisontal [spelling] relationships, now we can see how new hierarchies occure [spelling] in spheres of art, politics, economics etc. So there are a lot of new questions. Will we be visible in this new digital world? What kind of people will be endowed with a power in it? How can we catch the moment and join to this these new influential communities?
"May you live in intresting [spelling] times" as an old Chinese curse tells says.
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Honestly, I had similar thoughts. Yes, this Coronavirus epidemic is a horrible thing, especially for those who lost their lives and their families, but it also can (and hopefully will) teach us a lot. Normally people pay money to go on meditation retreats and reflect; now many of us are "in retreat" in their homes with just themselves or their closest family through no choice of our own. We need to make use of that time the best we can. (No corrections from me because I'm not a native English speaker, just an advanced learner.)
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A really good piece of essay. But it seems that the“May you live in intresting times.” [1] [2] doesn’t exit in Chinese idiom at least in mainland Chinese idiom as I know. [1]https://www.zhihu.com/question/19611025 [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times

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