With the continuation of the coronavirus situation, it has become mandatory to wear masks inside

in several places.

For example, here in Quebec, in all interior spaces, public interior spaces, we are required

to wear masks.

And if you don't, you can get fined, you can get arrested, and especially the place where

you are can get fined. And that is arrested, and especially the place where you are can

get fined. And that is, of course, a much better way to enforce something by finding the restaurant

or the store, you know, in which you are not wearing a mask. So I think I've been really hesitating.

People have been asked me to make a video on the symbolism of masks now for weeks and I have

been hesitating just because everything is still kind of developing and it's such a very broad

symbolism. So you can see this video more as some thoughts on the symbolism of the masks

in this particular context, what it can mean in this particular context,

and we'll try to understand it together. Hopefully in this particular video, you can use

the comment section to give me your ideas as well. I'll try to be a little more attentive

to the comment section so that we can further the thinking about this situation with masks

and we can see how we can push it further.

And maybe I'll make another video if that is necessary.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So in order to understand the symbolism of masks in this context, we really need to be careful

not to let our minds go too far in symbolic thinking because we need to try to at least

at first stay close to what is happening and try to see what is happening through a symbolic

lens. And this symbolic lens does not exclude

the explicit reason why the mask is used. This explicit reason is, of course, part of the symbolic

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