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사회적 거리두기(social distancing)의 사회정치적 의미
많은 전문가들이 코로나-19사태는 현재 우리들의 삶의 방식을 근본적으로 바꾸는 게임 체인저(game changer) 가 될 것으로 진단하고 있습니다.
코비드 확산을 막기위해 실행 중인 사회적 거리두기(social distancing )는 이런 종류의 역병이 연쇄적으로 출현하는 것으로 인해 항구적인 생활방식으로 강요될 수도 있는 새로운 사회적 관계방식입니다.
자고로 사회성은 인간의 유적 본질로 주목되어 왔습니다. 이는 사회적 거리두기가 인간의 본성에 거스르는 것임을 의미합니다.
그러므로 인간이 타인과의 관계를 멀리하는 것은 개인의 정신적 신체적 스트레스는 물론이고, 예기치 못한 여러 사회적 병폐를 야기할 수 있다고 생각합니다.
사회적 거리두기가 일상화될 때 어떤 사회적 병폐를 야기하고 그 의미는 무엇일까를 정리해 보았습니다. 미처 주목하지 못해 간과한 점이 있다면 지적해 주시면 감사하겠습니다.
http://m.cafe.daum.net/nowonenglish/99TQ/351?svc=caf
1. 사람들 간의 고립과 고독감 심화
Over long periods of time, social isolation can increase the risk of a variety of health problems, including heart disease, depression, dementia, and even death. A 2015 meta-analysis of the scientific literature by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a research psychologist at Brigham Young University, and colleagues determined that chronic social isolation increases the risk of mortality by 29%.
That may be because social contacts can buffer the negative effects of stress. Lab studies by Holt-Lunstad and others have found that having a friend present can reduce a person’s cardiovascular response to a stressful task. There’s even a correlation between perceived social connectedness and stress responses. “Just knowing that you have someone you can count on if needed is enough to dampen some of those responses even if [that person is] not physically present,” Holt-Lunstad says.
What effects, if any, might be caused by social distancing in response to the coronavirus is an open question. “I have a couple competing hypotheses,” Holt-Lunstad says. “On the one hand, I am concerned that this will not only exacerbate things for those who are already isolated and lonely, but also might be a triggering point for others to now get into habits of connecting less.”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/we-are-social-species-how-will-social-distancing-affect-us
2.타자에 대한 공포감 만연
While it is important for all of us to be careful because of the outbreak of coronavirus, we cannot allow the fear this has generated to increase polarization and racial profiling. Most of us lead atomized lives. We invest more time and energy in email, text, and social media than we do in face-to-face interactions.Neighborly visits are a thing of the past. We don’t seem to have the inclination to build bridges across cultural and political divides. The rhetoric of bitterness and hate that is palpable the world over has been undermining rule of law. We have a lack of understanding of each other and a paranoia that leads to violence. The fear of the “other,” which is becoming legitimized, must be addressed boldly and courageously.
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I hope we can see a humanist response, as a self-conscious political philosophy, to epidemics and pandemics. Such a response must cross the frontiers of nationality and culture. A mere political response, as opposed to a humanitarian one, would reinforce borders between nation-states with irrationality and remorselessness.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/26/a-humanist-response-as-a-self-conscious-philosophy-to-pandemics/
3.인간혐오증과 주체성 상실 심화
Quarantining us in our apartments or houses, proscribing human interaction within six feet, and sanctioning society’s revulsion toward human secretion, breath, odor, and matter, the state has committed its authority and coercive force to the digital revolution as well as the broader transhumanist projects of Musk and other powerful misanthropes whose fantasies of self-obliteration are peddled as mystical transcendence.
Locked into a hyper-capitalistic internet whose material purpose is the commodification of our subjectivity and an ensuing eradication of our interiority, the particular is, more systematically than ever, being erased from human reality. If the Black Death helped usher in humanism, coronavirus, for better or worse, may well hasten its end.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/25/coronavirus-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-humanism/
4. 극우 민족주의 정서에 이용될 가능성
While the established elites remained unquestioning in their adherence to globalization, radical right-wing personalities and parties saw a golden opportunity in the bitterness of workers at continuing unemployment and their widespread concern that they were losing their jobs as corporations continued to move their operations to China or consigned them to Chinese subcontractors, like Apple did with Foxxcon, which was notorious for its exploitative labor practices.
Formerly identified with neoliberal economic proposals, many extreme right-wing parties opportunistically hijacked parts of the anti-globalization critique that had been espoused by the non-establishment left, like calls for protection of workers’ livelihoods and bringing back industries, but giving them a racist or anti-migrant twist.
Workers’ defection from the Democratic Party or their sitting out the 2016 presidential elections in key Midwestern states resulted in Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections in 2016. And in office, Trump delivered on his promise to labor that he would dump President Obama’s pet project, the borderless Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Even more radical was his administration’s labeling China an “economic aggressor” and rooting the U.S. predicament not in failed neoliberal policies but in a conspiracy allegedly fomented by China, transnational corporations, and out-of-touch establishment elites. “Death by China,” screamed the title of the influential book of Trump’s key economic adviser, Peter Navarro.
5. 국민들의 공포감은 경찰국가(감시국가)의 발전의 배양토
What we have yet to experience (although it may only be a matter of time) is that the government through the imposition of martial law could pose a greater threat to our safety (and our freedoms) than any virus.
As the Atlantic noted about Fear the Walking Dead: “The villains aren’t the zombies, who rarely appear, but the U.S. military, who sweep into an L.A. suburb to quarantine the survivors. Zombies are, after all, a recognizable threat—but Fear plumbs drama and horror from the betrayal by institutions designed to keep people safe.”
Indeed, zombie fiction perfectly embodies the government’s paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent.
Why else would the government feel the need to monitor our communications, track our movements, criminalize our every action, treat us like suspects, and strip us of any means of defense while equipping its own personnel with an amazing arsenal of weapons?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/24/120744/