Our Orwellian World

Our Orwellian World

When I was 14 years old I read 1984, and thought what an extraordinary world I would NOT like to live in. And yet a few blinks of the eye....2020.

COVID Pandemic

DEATH RATE

LOCKDOWN

Came screaming at me.

and as I penitently watched the death rate and infection rate soar...and prepared myself and my family for lockdown and waited for the hospital I worked in to become flooded...

Which it didn't

and again didn't

Quiet

Isolation crept in

Strain took hold
and then something within me broke free....

Perhaps it was a video I'd watched 

a couple more likely

or 1984 or the Arab Spring

or the End the War campaign post 911

or Palestine

Or Apartheid

That told me something was amiss

And the more I searched, more truths unfolded, some too frightening to share, and yet essential so that we can collectively wake up to the mass rape of our minds.