The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday September 24th, 2022
Who voted for them? by Thanos Kalamidas
Last week I wrote: “where were we when populism won”, and while one of the answers I suggested was: on our sofas eating our pizza; watching democracy murdered in our 52 inch ultra flat screens in between of the “Bachelorette” and the “Hollywood wives,” another question raised, who actually votes all those populist politicians and parties. Sadly part of the answer hides behind the… good old days.
The majority of the voters in Europe and USA nowadays are around their 50s or 60s, the post baby-boomers generation. Men and women who grew up during the ‘good’ times of disco, yuppies, Wall Street, fast profits, new cars and cool apartments. Don’t misunderstand me, even if they didn’t have money to play in the stock market, even if they couldn’t afford a new car and a cool apartment all these things were there around them. They were on the pages of the glossy magazines, television dramas and the newly found American style malls the size of small towns.
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Zombie Dreaming #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“In the 70’s
One day
A ghost
Of the future
Appeared to
A young boy
Of ten
And showed
Him a strange
Prophetic vision
Of the future.”
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #021 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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