It It 1971 Again?

As previously mentioned, we're both trying to stay away from watching or reading about current affairs for awhile. I'm limiting my social media time and starting to explore getting into reading again, probably going back to fantasy novels. I also want to take up the how-to-draw book again, and perhaps write once more but not (for the foreseeable) about silly sites. After we returned from shopping today with a nice clean car, we spent a few hours finishing up Apple TV's series about the music and politics of 1971, which I highly recommend. Of course you can always find historical parallels if you look hard enough, as humans we love finding patterns, but I was struck by (a) how far we've come since then and (b) how fragile all this freedom is when the strong status quo class feels it has anything to lose. And also, how creative opposition to status-quo conservatism can be. So in a small way it too gave me hope. We've been in dark places before and found the light. Just as we love finding patterns, I do think we all have an instinct to push past our lizard brains and bend towards the light. Little by little I'm climbing out.