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I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a weekend of watching a lot of dystopian programs

that involve curses, plagues, and how people have to make sacrifices on its five.

The theme of, the theme of these programs have been either adapt to your surroundings or

perish. Simple as that. And of course, I think this is going to be the mantra for the survival,

times the survival that is coming. The apocalyptic morality I've talked about it before.

I've been watching the TV series from, it's called From, FROM, and the last season of The Walking Dead.

Watch that over the weekend. I'm wondering about people who need to survive by rebuilding their

lives after plagues and scarcity and how people have to work together

when they're displaced, becoming refugees in the world. Dystopian narratives have long been,

they've been in a luring and thought-provoking form of entertainment, especially

for those who take an interest in studying social and political structures, from classics like,

of course, Animal Farm or 1984. It can't happen here, Brave New World.

Behold the Pale Horse. Just going down on the list of the books that you should be reading. We just

put, we just featured Behold the Pale Horse Bill Cooper's book in Aftermath.

Got media. If you sign up, you'll be able to find it and read through it. If you haven't read

through the book, it's available at our library. But yeah, we, you know, 1984 is there,

Brave New World there, of course. We have all kinds of other stuff that's in the library.

But there are other, I guess, modern, contemporary types of dystopian stories. Besides the

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