In Istanbul where an April spring has turned to winter, with temperatures below zero but toasty warn compared to the sight of my savings and pension etc. I picked the wrong year to become interested in my finances, it was far more freeing to have none.
I recently re-read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and there are a few startling similarities to the present, specifically the ending, where after decades of progress (for all the flaws in that notion), of creating wealth, representation, science and health, there is a backlash, a wilful destruction of everything, to return Arthur’s Britain to its dark ages. And here we are, perhaps?