Winston Smith

Wake up and smell the coffee. As I sit here at 07.54 drinking my morning coffee it is apparent that this is the new normal. There is no going back. Furlough until October Country bankrupted Empty office buildings No return to travel Resistance is futile. People really don't give a shit that this is happening. Rather the fear has made them embrace it. I've given up worrying about it now. I've come to realise most people in this country wont bother reading documents, or doing any research...

Just a random write today. It's been a while since I've composed anything. Today is a new day and I'm just going to write. I don't know what I 'm going to write about, but here are some words: Gratitude Don't be afraid, everything is going to be alright. The world is turning to shit. I am one of the people who thinks the government is out to screw us all. But so what I guess. Does it really matter in time? Will I really care? I maybe need to start a gratitude diary. You know what I will. Rig...

I bought a 2010 11 inch MacBook Air. It's old and it's slow, but I love it. Here's why: It's tiny The 11 inch MacBook is perfect for my needs. It's totally portable. Not much bigger than a large tablet. I can take it pretty much anywhere. I can travel. I'm a nomad and this form factor is perfect for me. I thought I'd struggle with the smaller screen compared to my 13inch work MacBook. Not so. I love the tiny screen, which forces me to run apps in full screen and focus on the task at hand. ...

I am a futurist. Here's the definition of from wikipedia: Futurists are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general. I had the moment of enlightenment that I'm a futurist over the past few weeks. I noticed a few of my friends and family have been calling me a conspiracy theorist. Yep...

Part one is a opinion piece. Part two is the start of a dystopian novel. Part One An opinion piece on the situation today. Questions are powerful. We are being told not question anything (more on that for another day - misinformation is a crime). Here are some questions I had recently, the futurist that I am: Is there a economic shift from the old inefficient closed loop economies of consumption to digital? Is second life the new normal as we transition to a new virtual reality? Are our eco...

Talk about moving the goal posts. This is how the narrative went: This is no threat carry on We need herd immunity Protect the NHS by flattening the curve R0 value needs to be ? ""Keeping the R down is going to be absolutely vital to our recovery. And we can only do it by our collective discipline and working together." - Boris What a load of tosh. They are literally just throwing new excuses to keep us locked in our homes. People are waking up to the fact that the mortality rate is jus...

I'm calling it now. We will see controlled opposition. Cue centre stage - extinction rebellion. These guys have been very quiet for nearly a year now. I always thought there was something inherently odd about this group. For many reasons. Firstly their founders - Roger Hallam - researching a PHD on ways for campaigns to maximize political participation and mobilization. Gail Bradbrook - A molecular biophysicist by training, working for Citizen Online in 2003 she deals with the charity’s ind...

Talk about moving the goal posts. This is how the narrative went: This is no threat carry on We need herd immunity Protect the NHS by flattening the curve R0 value needs to be ? ""Keeping the R down is going to be absolutely vital to our recovery. And we can only do it by our collective discipline and working together." - Boris What a load of tosh. They are literally just throwing new excuses to keep us locked in our homes. People are waking up to the fact that the mortality rate is jus...

If you feel like a minority and your voice is not being heard. If you are passionate about something you believe is wrong that is unfolding before your eyes, is that no the time to shout about it. If your views are being ridiculed and labeled conspiracies and you If now is not the time then when? There is a time when this blog may be subject to a fine Think about that for a second. Here is a small piece of cyberspace with nothing but words. Words typed into a computer by a human with severa...

Right vs Left - Divide and Conquer Politics is the new religion of the west. It's so divisive it blows my mind. Left Vs Right. It's how many people identify their entire existence. It's how they define the enemy. It's how they call out people they hate. It's absolutely bonkers. I'm sure if someone interviewed my philosophy they would uncover many right wing views of less government control and deregulation, but paradoxically believe access to good healthcare is a fundamental right of all citiz...

Dreaming of drones I have fairly vivid dreams, but don't always remember them. I had a dream last night and it scared the shit out of me. The dream wasn't that scary as such, I've probably had worse nightmares. The reason the dream scared the shit out of me was because it shows how the situation is permeating into my very psyche. A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. I was in a garden...

Dear citizen of the world this is your government speaking. Here is the new lexicon on words that shall be forever ingrained in your brain. Please pay attention! Social distancing Contact tracing Misinformation Died of Furloughed Lockdown Community Guidelines Unprecedented times Non essential worker National effort NHS Overwhelmed Flatten the curve Coronavirus We are all in this together   These are unprecedented times and only through Social Distancing can we Flatten the Curve and prevent t...

There is no other news in the world right now. What was in the news before Coronavirus? What was life like before Coronavirus? Did it all matter? When all this is over I plan to watch a lot less news. I'm currently glued to my screen, searching for bits of news, little hints of what's to come. This guessing game is not healthy. It makes you realise how unimportant the news is in "normal times". Why are people so obsessed? When you look around you at your little patch of land and you small circle...

That is a pretty deep question. I think that of course humanity has changed over the millennia. We are a very different species to what we were when we were in caves, or building the pyramids, or going to war in Europe. But there are still some fundamentals that have prevailed over that time. Two that I think are essential to being human: Privacy Freedom of speech Both of these are being eroded massively. On privacy, I have no doubt we will see some measure being brought in for contract tr...

Yesterday I installed Signal Messenger on my phone and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. I would really love to get WhatsApp out of my life. I don't trust facebook at all and I'm convinced there is a backdoor to it. I've never understood how it can play youtube videos and show little previews of websites and still be encrypted. But then I just don't get the tech, there are plenty of documents that show that WhatsApp is. There are two things that are holding me back from moving. The obvious on...