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Originally Posted by Sylvano the Wasabus
I aspire to be the bird or the squirrel, living in the moment.
I think social media and the find-you-everywhere technology erodes individuality. It’s a herd mentality. I’m an old man early, keeping to myself, playing with my toys and reading Agatha Christie novels.
Wherever humanity is headed it is clearly going there without me.
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Replace Agatha Christie with Charles Dickens, Philip Pullman, Erin Hunter and George Orwell (and possibly Mervyn Peake - giving him a go) and adding going out with close family quite often, and that could be a reasonable description of me. Insular and proud!