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.

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's true.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Insofar as I'm anything these days, I'm a Buddhist. Buddhism gets closer to the essence of things, I think, than any other philosophy.

[raakone.livejournal.com]

"The only constant is change."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We never step into the same river twice.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Even change happens in the Ukraine with the ovethrow of the dictatorial preident

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Certainly, in a larger sense, nothing is permanent. Countries come and go, empires rise and fall - but, I wonder if the allure of omnipresent surveillance will prove too much to resist for quite a while. (Coupled, of course, with the internment, persecution, or effective exile of those who point such out, let alone gross injustices: viz Thomas Drake, John Kiriakou, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and more)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That was one of the things in my mind when I wrote the post.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's almost impossible to uninvent things. Now we have the suveillance state we'll have to learn to live with it- and maybe circumvent it. Fifty years ago we were all terrified of the Bomb- and now we've adjusted and adapted and the fear has largely gone away- even though the world still possesses a huge nuclear arsenal.