RE: Progmess report
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Oh yeah, that looks so much better and space is always a winner.
You guys call the basic houses "cookie cutters" and we call them "chicken cages" lol.
Renovations always deliver tons of scraps, but it so worth it to carve out your own character in your home.
One day in the far future a new owner will come and divide all of the open spaces into smaller rooms again hahaha. Just the way that life works!
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There are some suburbs in Australia that I call smurf villages - they are so close together and painted pastel colours to make them look fun - but they aren't. Most are just mirror images of the neighbour house repeated, street after street.
Yeah - and fit in 6 families in a dystopian future where no house is allowed to be shared by any less than 4 different races and 7 genders.
You will laugh when you see our 3 bedroom "house" Taraz.
18 little cottages where individuality is verboten.
Ringfenced with an electrical fence to keep out visiting strangers with dark motives.
Ruled by a committee and no changes can be made without going through the torture of applications and yay, or nay votes.
But there's only the two of us, so we have 1 bedroom, 1 study (2nd bedroom) where I am writing this now on my PC and one tool store (3rd cubicle that they call a bedroom).
No complaints here, as it's a place where we can lay our heads down and the only sadness is that our views are very limited.
But then again, the mountains and the ocean is only a short distance away.
Amazingly my wife had one of those academical discussions this very morning and guess what the title of the paper was?
"Dystopian reality? Reading the Hunger Games in an African context"
Something about Dystopia being the opposite of Utopia, but I didn't listen to the talk.
Here's something utopian for smallsteps from my post today!
One of my brothers was working for a time in Papua New Guinea from within a compound, three sets of fences...
This is the worst bit!
I am not sure if a true utopia is possible, but e do seem to be heading faster toward dystopia, despite the advances in tech that should swing it the other way. The problem with technology is that it is leveraged to control us, rather than free us by those who will never have enough power.
But hey, may as well have fun on the way down :)
Are the bears for sale?
O yeah, over here they are called lifestyle units and the electric fences are there to ensure that the residents can sleep safely at night.
All of the private homes are also electric fenced to protect them against burglars.
Technology might help on the economic front my friend and you are totally correct about the controlling factors, but it will most certainly not create an utopia on the practical side.
The human factor is our downfall and we might all become slaves to the system.
But nothing prevents us from enjoying the ride on the Titanic.
Yes, he invented the new mobile soft toy business, as I explained in the post.
Did you show smallsteps the picture?
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