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Getting Back To "The Things We Love"

Since the "pandemic" started or rather since "lockdown/safety measures" have been in place, from March 2020, there has been little else on my mind but Covid19 and the restrictions that have been forced onto the nation. Perhaps if I had not watched TV or listened to the radio, refrained from all social media and newspapers media, spoken to no one or listened to any one, or even spent the last year on an uninhabited island miles from home, then I may not have been impacted as much as I feel I have.  Granted there have been thousands/ millions/ billions who have been in a much worse position than me and have been immensely more than inconvenienced, as no doubt it could be argued, has been my position. The thing is that this issue is a personal feeling of how we have been affected and the effect or lack of it that has been experienced by each of us and those close to us, whether physically, mentally or in the abstract.  I do not intend to debate the possible rights and ...

Dystopia or Utopia - 2021 What's Yours Called ?

Dystopia :   a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.                 :  an antonym o f Utopia  a term coined by  Sir Thomas More   and figures as the title of                      one of his best known works , published in 1516, which created a blueprint for an                           ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty.    Wikipedia Dystopias are often characterised by   tyrannical  governments, environmental disaster, dehumanising  or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many  fictional works  and artistic representations, particularly in stories set in the future and some of the most famous examples are  Aldous Huxley 's  Brave New Wo...