The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday December 20th, 2022 – Ovi magazine 18th Birthday
A beacon of light #birthday by Nikos Laios
Today we celebrate the 18th birthday of OVI Magazine, but before we get to the Atlas-like efforts of Thanos at building and carrying this wonderful publication on his shoulders, let’s take a moment to reflect on what OVI Magazine means to both the contributors and the readership, and here I’ll start with my own perspectives as a contributor to OVI Magazine.
I have been writing for OVI Magazine now for just over 8 years, and in that time have contributed my poetry and art, articles, and have also been a part of the OVI philosophy Symposium working alongside the late Professor Emanuel Paparella contributing philosophy articles. For this writer, OVI Magazine has been a labour of love, it has given me a platform for both my poetry and art, thoughts and reflections, and that applies to many of the team here on OVI Magazine.
We live in dark chaotic times, the human species is tearing itself apart competing for shrinking resources while feigning a concern for the state of the ecology of the Earth. But it’s not the Earth that we really care about, but our very own survival. For long after the human species vanishes from this Earth in some future extinction event, the Earth will recover, as it always does. We are nothing but savage soulless monkey-men – a species without souls – no better than the other primates and mammals that populate this planet, and with all due respect to the religions espoused by the Abrahamic faiths, they are nothing but beautiful delusions, and it is through these beautiful delusions that humanity has arrogantly placed itself as the guardian of the Earth and above all life that dwells here. Yet the solution to the Earth’s – and mankind’s problems – lie with man himself.
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Eighteen years OLD! #birthday by Thanos Kalamidas
When you are young you say things like: the first eighteen years are the difficult ones. But what if these eighteen years are …dog years, alas one hundred and twenty-six years! But here we are not talking about a dog, aren’t we? We are talking about Ovi magazine and life online. So we might as well talk about centuries instead of a dog century.
Ovi magazine is eighteen years old with emphasis on the world old. Old means wisdom and experience but also means tiredness and weariness. Old means that while you will never openly admit it, you have started counting what is left and the world around us changes fast often reminding you that being old might means that you miss something, here and there. And these also applies to the real people, the living and breathing individuals behind the virtual life.
So let’s talk about the past. For eighteen years Ovi stood for democracy, freedom and choices, against any kind of discrimination and prejudice. We fought in every chance Nazism and fascism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and corruption. We stood by the poor and hungry, we often shown our care for the children and the suffering. And we survived a lot of hits during these years, collective and personal hits.
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AntySaurus Prick 18th #birthday #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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