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What do you think of the fact that everyone in the farmhouse had plans to resume their old lives in the event of a post-plague era?
For a person to want to resume the tired, mundane, and generally unremarkable existence they lived before might come off to some as foolish. It is also a direct parallel to Mark's assessment of the stragglers. Given the chance to start fresh, choosing not to start fresh might could seem as uninspired as it gets. Furthermore, in Whitehead’s critique of society that led up to the plague, there is the subtle suggestion that the plague happened because of apathy and mindlessness. Doing the same thing all over again is perhaps asking for...
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