The Fox and CNN drones have people speaking and thinking in the same overly simplistic terms they use. I appreciate you reading my post and sharing your nuanced views.
Thanks Mickey for this helpful perspective and reality check. Personally, I'd rather wake up in the forest than in any city in the world, but it's amazing to me how adaptable people are and how they can thrive in many ways in such crowded and stressful conditions. So glad that there are people like you in our world!
Thanks, Will! I've lived my entire life in NYC but have also been blessed to enjoy time in nature. So, yes, I get it and I sometimes wonder what my life would've been like if I hadn't been put into the position of having to be so adaptable!
Yes - so well said - it seems that if we can embrace who we are now, we can embrace whatever it took to get us here.... and of course.... the wheel of rebirth goes round & round...
You're too kind, Will, but thank you. I trust that, on some level, people who have connected on one timeline can recognize each other on a different timeline.
I hope you are right. I have a couple friends who love NYC and went there every few years, some to celebrate old and new. As for myself I avoid every city over 20000 people. I live in one of 2500 and that is just my size LOL
I grew up in the NY area and spent most of my youth in the 1970s and 80s in NYC. It was full of crazy people, fringe artists and musicians, radicals of all stripes, lunatics and white collar criminals, and regular working people gruffly pursuing their days. I loved it, and even after leaving the area in the 80s, I frequently returned to experience all of it.
But after visiting NYC mulitple times over the 2020-21 period, I don't want to go back. It's not the piled up garbage or alleged violence or fear of contagion, or just the "non-binary snowflakes." It's the masked multitudes who freak me out. On a visit in late 2020, I and a few tourists were the only people I encountered not wearing a mask on the street, even though there was no "legal" reguirement to wear one. Bike messengers, badass headbanger types, smug yuppies, children of all colors, everyone but cops were wearing masks on the street, revealing only the panic in their eyes. In typical NY fashion, smokers managed to inhale with a mask on, raising the question of what they though a mask was doing. Things are a little less terrible more recently, but it still sucks. Either all the fringe and radical types have fled or they have been transformed into servile little douchebags. It's sad as hell.
Thanks for pointing this out. I've also heard the rumors about NYC's decline and thought, well, NYC has always had troubles... I do miss living in a big city. Really liked the variety, the diversity of people, places and things to do. But I would think that living in NYC would be hellish right now, considering the intense brainwashing. It's sad to see people who used to be rebels--punk rockers, gang-bangers, radical "activists", etc., going along with the mandates. Some people think that directed energy weapons or some sort of sophisticated mind control techniques using technology were used to brainwash people. It is disturbing but also fascinating to watch.
Thank you, Meri. I sometimes wish the explanation were that simple but, for the record, plenty of New Yorkers are awake. When I wear my "I will not comply" baseball cap or my "Make 1984 Fiction Again" t-shirt, I get lots of positive comments!
Thank YOU, Teresa.
The Fox and CNN drones have people speaking and thinking in the same overly simplistic terms they use. I appreciate you reading my post and sharing your nuanced views.
Thanks Mickey for this helpful perspective and reality check. Personally, I'd rather wake up in the forest than in any city in the world, but it's amazing to me how adaptable people are and how they can thrive in many ways in such crowded and stressful conditions. So glad that there are people like you in our world!
Thanks, Will! I've lived my entire life in NYC but have also been blessed to enjoy time in nature. So, yes, I get it and I sometimes wonder what my life would've been like if I hadn't been put into the position of having to be so adaptable!
Yes - so well said - it seems that if we can embrace who we are now, we can embrace whatever it took to get us here.... and of course.... the wheel of rebirth goes round & round...
Hmm...I wonder where I'll end up next...
Yes - and will you recognize yourself? - and will we recognize each other? I know you'll keep up your work, wherever that is....!
You're too kind, Will, but thank you. I trust that, on some level, people who have connected on one timeline can recognize each other on a different timeline.
I hope you are right. I have a couple friends who love NYC and went there every few years, some to celebrate old and new. As for myself I avoid every city over 20000 people. I live in one of 2500 and that is just my size LOL
I can only imagine what my life would be like and who I'd be if I had managed to avoid large cities.
P.S. I hope I'm right, too!
I grew up in the NY area and spent most of my youth in the 1970s and 80s in NYC. It was full of crazy people, fringe artists and musicians, radicals of all stripes, lunatics and white collar criminals, and regular working people gruffly pursuing their days. I loved it, and even after leaving the area in the 80s, I frequently returned to experience all of it.
But after visiting NYC mulitple times over the 2020-21 period, I don't want to go back. It's not the piled up garbage or alleged violence or fear of contagion, or just the "non-binary snowflakes." It's the masked multitudes who freak me out. On a visit in late 2020, I and a few tourists were the only people I encountered not wearing a mask on the street, even though there was no "legal" reguirement to wear one. Bike messengers, badass headbanger types, smug yuppies, children of all colors, everyone but cops were wearing masks on the street, revealing only the panic in their eyes. In typical NY fashion, smokers managed to inhale with a mask on, raising the question of what they though a mask was doing. Things are a little less terrible more recently, but it still sucks. Either all the fringe and radical types have fled or they have been transformed into servile little douchebags. It's sad as hell.
Thanks, Jerome. You certainly nailed a big part of the recent equation. The masking is indeed unnerving.
Thanks for pointing this out. I've also heard the rumors about NYC's decline and thought, well, NYC has always had troubles... I do miss living in a big city. Really liked the variety, the diversity of people, places and things to do. But I would think that living in NYC would be hellish right now, considering the intense brainwashing. It's sad to see people who used to be rebels--punk rockers, gang-bangers, radical "activists", etc., going along with the mandates. Some people think that directed energy weapons or some sort of sophisticated mind control techniques using technology were used to brainwash people. It is disturbing but also fascinating to watch.
Thank you, Meri. I sometimes wish the explanation were that simple but, for the record, plenty of New Yorkers are awake. When I wear my "I will not comply" baseball cap or my "Make 1984 Fiction Again" t-shirt, I get lots of positive comments!