Stíny v našich duších: kronika virového šílení – Komárek Stanislav (2024)

The third volume of Stanislav Komárek's memoirs describes and comments on the hard-to-believe years of the coronavirus pandemic from 2020 to 2022. Why was this period so obsessed with death? How much can death be permanently repressed and negated when it is an integral part of our life and fate? What key and detrimental role did the media play at that time? Does the year 2020 represent one of the historical turning points, comparable to the year 1914? How did elements of para-religious thinking seep into areas where we would not expect them at first glance? How does collective projection of the Jungian Shadow practically function? Why did almost everyone so willingly give up civil liberties in favor of the illusion of security? Are we not already tired of freedom, and has the historical movement begun to reverse the revolution of 1989, that is, from trust in the individual towards an all-controlling state-parent? Why did interest in the pandemic drop so sharply with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, when the 'epicenter of death' shifted elsewhere and the 'internal enemy' was replaced by an external one? And how can Euro-American society continue to evolve?