The Sleeping Sickness by European P Douglas

Author:European P Douglas [Douglas, European P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ghost Creative
Published: 2021-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

Entry 16

It wouldn’t be fair to talk about all the bad things that have taken place over the years since the Solar Flare and neglect to mention all the good things that came along too. Well, fair maybe isn’t the right word — there had been nothing fair about all the shit that has happened in the last decade. Silver linings, maybe that’s the better term.

First and I suppose most obvious is that looks, and physical attractiveness no longer hold the sway they once did. It’s no longer enough to be good looking or desirable sexually to get the job or promotion you’re looking for. Don’t get me wrong here, there are still plenty of people who will hire the woman with the hottest body even not knowing what her face looks like, but it is much less of an issue.

People are now treated according to what’s inside and the talents they possess. I can’t be a hundred percent on this, but I think even racism has declined since we all started covering our faces. A lot of that might be down to it just being almost impossible to tell most of the time what race a person is.

Next on the list — though this is kind of making a comeback already — was the death of social media and the fickle weak generation it was fostering. Teenagers who lived or died based on how many meaningless ‘likes’ or comments they got. Photos of people their closest relatives wouldn’t recognize being the only ones acceptable for public offering. It was a mess and getting worse by the day, but that’s all over now, and it can never come back in the same way as it was unless the Sleeping Sickness is someday eradicated, and we all go back to living in the flesh.

I should ask Catherine what her social media presence was like before all of this. I was on everything but only posted once every six months or less. I never saw the full use of it, especially when ads started showing up everywhere.

Another thing that got better — and also something we are doing our best to undo — was the natural world came back in a big way while the world was without power. Trees, bushes, grassland, all of it flourished and the air was cleaner for it — and of course the lack of pollutants. Some parts of the country have never looked better, and there are often photographs on the internet showing places that have been abandoned and where nature is starting to take over once more. I’d like to see one of those places for myself one day, walk around and look inside buildings where plants have taken hold and animals have made their homes.

Maybe I could take a walk like that with Catherine sometime. I wonder where is the closest place like that?

The general pace of life has slowed down, and I guess that’s not a bad thing at all. After all

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