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Thank you, G.  I find Orwell's connection to the Fabian Society to both...  Fascinating & interesting.

Twas indeed "interesting times", which are otherworldly in the televised broadcasts of the time.

There is this cool video I saw, of this time, set to the song "Bird of Prey", by The Doors.  Totally cool.

Thank you for your wonderful compliment.

Nice thought provoking write ... as scary as that time was ... I fear more for the uncharted future ...

Thank you, Lil.  Your fears are certainly justified and valid.

There is this concept of "every day one must think of oneself as already dead".  

This comes from the school of the Samurai.

Tis perhaps radical but something I have meditated upon.

The text speaks of, essentially, envisioning a violent death, on a daily basis.

Does this expel "The Fear".?.

For me...  I find that I must fight The Fear on a daily basis.

I have only recently been able to acknowledge that...  I am an experiencer of The Fear...

Thank you, BM.  

(I do keep my political views concealed, for shore.)

and could wax poetic on the nature of politics.  something that would be a cool conversation with a mind, such as yours, which I find to be expansive and cool.

I enjoyed how you concluded this with your last 3 line.
Awesome write.

Thank you, LJ.  You know something?  I wrote the piece just for those last three lines!  As I have said, you are a dynamic mind, perfectly fitting for your namesake.

Also, that moment maybe made me question my humanity, in a certain way.  

How could I feel the sort of nothing that I felt over two dudes getting into a bloody fist fight, not two feet away from me?