We live in a time where the physics of society are ruled by viruses and ideologies.
Neither are alive.
Both require living biological entities to reproduce.
Both are constituted primarily by ideas—genetic or lettered—held in relationship.
Neither are living, but are ideas in relationship.
They are shapes of ideas.
Constellations.
Instructions for single-celled organismic life,
Or multicellular human organismic life.
But viruses and ideologies have their own needs and desires too.
They are self-interested.
And their interests are a grand mystery.
As though there can be desire without life.
Both flow more freely across continents than ever before.
They might be reforming the human species quickly into some
global community.
Or not.
Regardless of where we’re going, it seems to hold that that we live in a time of viruses and ideologies and they are akin.