"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back"
Harper Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Shelley, Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Shirley Jackson, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, the Bronté sisters, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Atwood. That’s just off the top of my head, imagine if I’d googled it
@DameLozza@UKDemockery I like to think the pendulum will eventually swing back to decency and equity when the penny eventually drops. I have now come to the conclusion that I will be cancelling my membership...
@DameLozza@UKDemockery Indeed, and neither are they for me being an overweight white, balding and seen better days man who would like to see a fair and equitable society!
@JonJonesSnr "All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontentment led nowhere.." G Orwell 1984
@JonJonesSnr “Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult". George Orwell - 1984
@DianeCharlton11@LevingeJulie Likewise, at a similar age, we were able to get free tickets for the final dress rehearsal of a performance of Madame Butterfly.
@JackLSimpson@SkyNews@KTTunstall On reflection, you maybe right about this one. Perhaps I was a little hasty transferring what should be the responsibility of a government to bring security to over 200K jobs as with other industries, onto the artists themselves. Lockdown is a strange creature!