CirclipOPNottingham, Nottinghamshire, England UK826 posts
I sometimes get notifications on my phone that such and such a book is "trending" on Kindle. This, no doubt, is supposed to induce me to go and buy it. I never do buy the book. I don't know how odd it makes me, but the fact that everyone else is doing something only makes me want to do it less.
What happens when the one thing we have in common is a fashionable sense of non-conformity? The modern day yielding an astonishing number of clans and little niches that would never be able to get on down at the pub. Will there even be a pub? Or football?
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
CirclipOPNottingham, Nottinghamshire, England UK826 posts
ChesneyChrist: lockdown was motivated by the people who hate the people in the pub and prefer to live in an Orwellian little cubicle online where knowing even less about anything or anyone is no barrier to being judgemental and authoritarian
So you see no sense in discouraging people from freely mingling during the prevalence of a contagious virus, Chesney?
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