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The pandemic revealed the most cowardly society of all time

By Filipe Rafaeli - posted Thursday, 11 December 2025


It was obeying misleading propaganda from corporations with a $33 billion history of fraud fines. It was creating nothing - no art, no movement, no meaningful culture - from the greatest collective trauma in decades. It was forgetting quickly when remembering became inconvenient.

The Cold War gave us "Born to Be Wild" and the slogan "Make love, not war." Covid gave us vaccine passports and delivery apps. No transformative art. No revolution of thought.

Seven years after the Missile Crisis, in August 1969, Joe Cocker took the stage at Woodstock and sang "With a Little Help from My Friends." His reinterpretation of the Beatles song became the most powerful live performance in music history. Four hundred thousand people celebrating life, not death or human shields.

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Two babies were born during the festival. Nine-months-pregnant women decided they couldn't miss that moment. Imagine the atmosphere.

Almost six years after the global lockdowns of March 2020, what exactly do we have? Zoom meetings. Homemade bread on Instagram. TikTok dances.

Or does anyone really believe that in two years we'll have our own Woodstock?

 

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This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It was first published by Brownstone Institute.

 



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Filipe Rafaeli is a filmmaker, a four-time Brazilian aerobatics champion, and a human rights activist. He writes about the pandemic on his Substack and has articles published in France Soir, from France, and Trial Site News, from USA.

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