If you would all recall your history lessons, you will understand my discomfort with the current situation as it is. Imagine if someone from the 1920's took a trip in time to 2020, hoping that they would see a world fulfilled, a world that realised the hopes and aspirations of the revolutionaries - Martin Luther's dream achieved, world peace, and the end of barbarian dictatorships. To their dismay the only thing that we have been able to democratise is 'Slim Aarons' - photographs of attractive people doing attractive things - we call it Instagram!
Lo and behold - 2020 is 1920 repackaged and sold in a new bottle, the added accessories being the internet and far reaching technology that has put us on the Moon, Mars, a nearby asteroid and Jupiter's moon. The other thing that's spreading faster than information (that may or may not be 'Fake News') is a deadly virus, Covid -19, an influenza that kills. Wait, even that's not an original, we had a pandemic in 1918. I came across a few photographs on the internet and it seems like Spanish Flu, broadcasts and notices have also been recycled much like the whole century.
What's new? : People trying to ascertain that 'Black Lives Matter', Mini wars in the Middle East, Concentration Camps have shifted eastwards, Muslims are the new Jews, Imperialism is alive and kicking in Hong Kong and Taiwan, A cold war on the cards between an emerging Asian super power and the USA. Of course we have introduced global warming to the mix, but a nuclear winter is more likely to surpass the event.
And that dear reader, is the Fearful Symmetry of two Centuries. But fear not,
you can use the calm app and order Goop products on Amazon. There is also instagram in case anxiety is killing you and you need meme therapy or therapy memes. And finally, we can democratise the moon. Then there's life on Mars and Space X... "To Mars, all aboard."
Why we never learn from history?
And keep a fearful symmetry.
of our past and a present century.
Adi - Iti
Lo and behold - 2020 is 1920 repackaged and sold in a new bottle, the added accessories being the internet and far reaching technology that has put us on the Moon, Mars, a nearby asteroid and Jupiter's moon. The other thing that's spreading faster than information (that may or may not be 'Fake News') is a deadly virus, Covid -19, an influenza that kills. Wait, even that's not an original, we had a pandemic in 1918. I came across a few photographs on the internet and it seems like Spanish Flu, broadcasts and notices have also been recycled much like the whole century.
What's new? : People trying to ascertain that 'Black Lives Matter', Mini wars in the Middle East, Concentration Camps have shifted eastwards, Muslims are the new Jews, Imperialism is alive and kicking in Hong Kong and Taiwan, A cold war on the cards between an emerging Asian super power and the USA. Of course we have introduced global warming to the mix, but a nuclear winter is more likely to surpass the event.
And that dear reader, is the Fearful Symmetry of two Centuries. But fear not,
you can use the calm app and order Goop products on Amazon. There is also instagram in case anxiety is killing you and you need meme therapy or therapy memes. And finally, we can democratise the moon. Then there's life on Mars and Space X... "To Mars, all aboard."
Why we never learn from history?
And keep a fearful symmetry.
of our past and a present century.
Adi - Iti
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