From Norman Rockwell to George Orwell: In One Generation

Unimaginable today, this writer grew up in the idyllic world captured in Norman Rockwell’s paintings. We liked his illustrations, because they recorded what was going on in our small town in British Columbia. Quite like many American or Canadian communities. But now, Orwellian horrors are not just at the gates, but within. Corruption that has destroyed inner cores of big cities is now being forced upon hitherto innocent regions. A malevolent political metastasis, and according to Joni Mitchell “you don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone”. It’s not just the past that’s gone but ordinary life is being brazenly trashed.   In a recent video clip, a woman in Florida, who as a child fled Communist Cuba, tearfully asks “Where can we escape to now?”.