Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among thieves? |
Martin Pawley, way back in 1974, wrote an explosive book, The Private Future, in which he forecast the intense privacy and individualistic communication much of which we have today. His final paragraph says: 'Alone in a centrally heated, air conditioned capsule, drugged, fed with music and erotic imagery, the parts of his consciousness separated into components that reach everywhere and nowhere, the private citizen of the future will have become one with the end of effort and the triumph of sensation divorced from action. When the barbarians arrive they will find him, like some ancient Greek sage, lost in contemplation, terrified yet fearless, listening to himself. |
The good Samaritan
From now on in
Stop the slide?
Friday 29 March
2019
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I live
with my wife Marion
in Wellington
New Zealand.
I'm a father and grandfather.
I used to fish
I used to play croquet
I play lawn bowls - summer
I play indoor bowls - winter
I read.
I pray and meditate.
I write.
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