I think its worth mentioning in the classic prisoners dilemma, the 2 prisoners are not in contact with each other. A has no way of knowing if B has sold him out, and vice versa. It usually plays out that, without any further information, each man assumes the worst about the other, and it becomes a race to sell each other out first.
Community and solidarity destroys their little game, which is why it is so important for those of us in the hopper at the moment.
This relates to your other article https://undividedattention.substack.com/p/how-can-we-have-thoughtful-productive I think: we have to do our best to maintain connections with the opposite side of our vaccinated status:
unvaccinated maintain contact / relationship with vaccinated
vaccinated maintain contact / relationship with unvaccinated
This is the only way we can end up having any sort of conversation to break the spell woven by the powers that be.
I think its worth mentioning in the classic prisoners dilemma, the 2 prisoners are not in contact with each other. A has no way of knowing if B has sold him out, and vice versa. It usually plays out that, without any further information, each man assumes the worst about the other, and it becomes a race to sell each other out first.
Community and solidarity destroys their little game, which is why it is so important for those of us in the hopper at the moment.