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epleted supermarket shelves, hand-to-hand combat over perishable goods,
and huge online queues to order groceries by delivery. Stories like this
comeatawarpspeedrecently,andwecrankthevolumeuptowatchnews.
ESTABLISHED1954
Nothingfeelsright.Willthisobsessive,compulsivetendencybenecessary,really?
Publishedmonthlyexceptonschoolholidaysbyand
Don?twealldiscoverthatthevirusisnotfoodborneandwealwayshadmorefood
for the students of Hankuk University of Foreign
than we consume? Perhaps, the problem is that many of us are used to having our
Studies, TheArgus, the oldest campus English
ownversionofjust-in-timesupplychains.Wedonotregularlyholdontoproduce
magazine in Korea, pursues the highest standard of
we might never use as well. So this situation may feel like uncharted territory
campusjournalismandacademism.
after all. The world is no longer making any sense, and there is no sense of when
normalitymightresume.Hoarderscaveintotheherdmentality,andripsfromour
natural ways of interdependence. They tell us, “If everybody is buying food, will
?PresidentandPublisher
Prof.KimIn-chul
therebeanyleftforme?”
?ExecutiveEditor
Prof.NamWon-jun
I guess this phenomenon can be explained that humans are regressing to the
primitiveprotectionritualthatfeedsourcognitivebiasanillusionofcontrol.There
?CopyReaders
Prof.MerrileeBrinegar
needstobesomethingdonetoregaintheaddictiveholdofnormalityandultimately
Prof.JosephR.Vincent
toprotectourbodyboundariesfrominfection.Thus,wechoosetoputweaponson
Prof.ChrisKobylinski
our bedside in this cognitive whiplash and shout out, “Well, I better be safe than
?Editor-in-Chief
KwakHyun-jeong(PA-3)
sorry!” We hunker down in our comfy rooms, and try not care to watch upsetting
news on television, chilling out with Netflix and some weed we have stocked up
?EditorialConsultants
in our shelves. And then, we obviously and proudly turn a blind eye about the
LeeJae-won(H-4)
constricted, blue-collar lives out there, who cannot afford time off. No one fully
NaGeum-chae(CFAC-3)
understandsthedisposablesdivide.
?Editor
ParkChang-hwan(G-4)
But imagine a life of day laborers looking for food in the garbage bins, so
?AssociateEditors
JangSoo-hyun(IS-3)
frequently painful that every thought is tinged with this ongoing scarcity.
YooChan-heum(ELC-2)
How would they even maintain clean zones? The existing class disparities get
exacerbated even more in this crisis. It seems that we are just used to holding the
?OverseasCorrespondent
scales and dispense what meager rations they deem sufficient, while the luxuries
KimSe-chan(MC-3)
remain abundant and out of reach for the lower class. The novel threat is bringing
?Illustrator
YoonYeah-lim
the indifference and numbness out of us. It is as if the world comes down to the
Malthusiannotionofinevitablefaminecycles.
“Amanwhoisbornintoaworldalreadypossessed,ifhecannotgetsubsistencefrom
hisparentsonwhomhehasajustdemand,andifthesocietydonotwanthislabour,
hasnoclaimofrighttothesmallestportionoffood…”
-AnEssayonthePrincipleofPopulation,1798,ThomasMalthus
Atthispoint,weshouldrecognizethatifthereissomeonestarving,itisbecause
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someonehasstarvedthem.Weshouldcertainlynotsurvivebybullyingourwayto
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thetopofthefoodchain,abandoningourownspecies.Inlinewiththis,TheArgus
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