Our new brave world.

[j.sabourn]

As mention in another post has been brought up about South Shields Marine and technical college further notes should be made of. After the last ww socialism was beginning to show its head . What once had been a privilege for higher education was becoming a right for all. If Me. Or my parents had of had to pay for my attendance at further learning after 15 , I wouldn’t have gone. However fees and travel expenses books etc were paid on a government grant . It was the era of a new world for the real working class. Those who moan today about their conditions , most havent lived in the real world. They should be thankful for what others before them have attained for them. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

The brave new world, some fairy story at the best of times.

There is a monthly magazine here in Oz, 'New Dawn'
It covers many aspects of life, some true, some very odd and some very scary.

One such item is about Virtual Reality, a subject more and more of the younger generation are taking up.
Not satisfied with the real world they don a mask which allows them to see a new world.
The most frightening thing about this is Zuckerburgh, the Fake book inventor.
He is developing the 'Metaverse' the new world where humanity is prisoner to the thinking and ways of just a few who will control the world.

Then the talk of a world government, an extension of what is now U.N. but with far more power and a global currency in Crypto Currency.

All brought about by a few who fear the rise of China and the current control held by USA.

The younger generation inmost western nations do not know or understand hardship, they have never had to go without, to go looking for work to pay the bills, to know what it is like to suffer nay form of hardship.
All is done for them all is given to them.

When we were kids we walked to school, or if lucky rode a bike, or took the bus or tram.
Now they have a chauffer because the parents are frightened some one will run off with their kid, they must be joking.
Run off with some spoiled brat??

We the workers of years long past did the hard yards so the kids of toady can have an easy life, sorry lads, not to my liking.

[Johnny Kieran]

Our new brave world is already here, and has been for some time. It used to be Kings and Queens that ruled, or dictators, but now it's fatcats.
I think the EU woke up most people this side of the world, hence Brexit, but the fatcats are not having it, simply because they own the EU, and China, and the US, plus of course Russia.
Because of technological advances, the fatcats have longer sticks to beat us with. Everybody spends their time looking at a screen, particularly the younger generation, simply because they understand easier, how to work it all.
I was watching my Grandson playing football once, and heard one mother say "My son is going into the army, he'll be very good at it, because he always wins these wargames on his computer". I felt a certain despair come over me.