Listen HERE Former Libertarian Party VP Candidate and mayor of Bellflower, California Art Olivier discusses his brand-new article “The Coronavirus Transformation Ritual.” In it he writes: “Masks are quite often required during a ritual to help create a new identity. From ‘Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 11, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2004, Ritual, Masks, And Sacrifices’, ‘Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face. The mask makes the disengagement from ordinary time and the connection to the ancient and repetitive, which is the…
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