The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday January 3rd, 2022
022 or 2020, too ? by Dr. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
The power of writing is that the dialogue is not only held with the contemporaries. Writing can reach future generations, too. Great poet Mak says: “when nobody listens, write”. How will we reflect on events of 2020-21 in about 5 or 10 years? How will we explain our indifference, silence and retreat? What will we say to our children?
Back to the pre-Christmas days of 2019, I wrote a short text about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and our careless joy of unselective deployment of this technology that might irreversibly change social fabrics like never before in history of humankind. Under the title “Future filled with empty choices – Tomorrow (n)ever AI-ies” the text soon after appeared in the Brussels-based New Europe and from there was taken to different outlets all over. Good old pre-Corona times.
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Year 2021 #thoughts by Amir Khatib
“The year passed quickly, its days were snatched by the lightness of a terrified wild animal, leaping from dull polar sunrise to sunset hidden behind mountains and forests, and my gift to myself at the beginning was that I made a wooden box and wrapped it in dark blue velvet to keep the first volume of my manuscript “Crystal Algeria”, which I completed during the year 2020. The days of that year were closed to themselves and to the drawing only, which ended up in a volume of one hundred and forty pages, the pages of which contained seventy drawings, adorning fifty-three hymns… I bought ornate hinges and a lock inscribed in bronze and locked it.”
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What is PTSD? by Joseph Gatt
Let’s put it this way. “Normal” people, that is people with no signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, tend to be easygoing, transparent, clear, and tend to give you a good time. Those “normal” people tend to have had an easy life or a difficult life but they are optimistic about life.
People with Post-traumatic stress disorder tend to have lived in situations where they end up on their own. Either their parents were neglectful, or they had to fight all alone, or they overcame war, economic recessions, or some kind of traumatic event where everyone was mean to them and no one was kind to them.
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Sceptic feathers #25 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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