Change And Decay

[poliphilo]

Nothing lasts for long. Good things don't last, but neither do bad things. The world of which we're a part is restless and fidgety and eager to move on to the next new thing.

Which is why Orwell and/or his characters were wrong to imagine his 1984 dystopia going on and on and on. Nothing goes on and on and on. The world won't stand for it.

The Beatles split up after only a few years, and so did the Soviet Union.

Change and decay in all around I see- and thank goodness for that.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

All of which is true -- but if you were born, lived, and died during the Soviet Union's threescore and ten it may have seemed immortal to you.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's true.