My idea of a good neighbor comes from my childhood in the late 80s and early 90s. Back when kids rode bikes everywhere, built forts, played tag throughout the neighborhood, and all had to be home before the street lights turned on.
My parents were friends with nearly everybody in our neighborhood and invited all of them over for house/pool/block parties. Every neighbor knew my brother and me and where we lived. Two separate neighbors had caught us smoking weed and cigarettes. Both confronted us and other kids to tell us what that kind of stuff would lead to but agreed to not tell our parents.
During our so-called lockdown for COVID-19, my neighbor yelled at me for being outside when I had picked up food for my family. Our city wasn’t under a mandatory lockdown by the way and if we had been, I had permission to be out since my job was being a caregiver to a quadriplegic. If I couldn’t be out to get to him, he would die. If we weren’t allowed outside, what was she doing out? Covid brought so much fear-mongering thanks to the mainstream media that it caused enough stress to kill people.
This was the real pandemic while we were convinced that a normal year of the flu was something concocted in Wuhan. Your friends, family members, and whoever passed away with COVID-19 written on their death certificate had died from underlying causes they already had but were made fatal from the overwhelming amount of stress and fear. If you want to disagree with me, go ahead, but keep your emotional ad hominem to yourself when I shut you down with the truth that is credibly sourced.
When neighbors start policing neighbors, it not anything good. The idea of neighbors policing neighbors associates with authoritarianism or fascism, in that it involves surveillance, reporting, or control of people’s behavior to enforce a rigid ideology, often driven by fear or mistrust. In fascist regimes, state control often extends to encouraging citizens to monitor and report each other, especially for dissenting views or actions that oppose the government or its ideals.
Historically, fascist and totalitarian governments like Nazi Germany or Mussolini’s Italy used neighbor-to-neighbor policing as a method to maintain power, creating an atmosphere of fear and division. The surveillance network would encourage citizens to inform on others for activities deemed subversive. This is a form of social control and repression, which are key characteristics of fascism.
Neighbors should not be like this.Neighbors are to be neighborly. Neighborly, according to Webster, implies a disposition to live on good terms with others and to be helpful on principle.
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