Paphos People

Over the past month or so there have been various articles in the british press regarding much loved chain stores closing branches and replacing with unmanned automated services , for example a station losing the person in the ticket office.people are obviously upset the way thingscare going, I agree it is sad to have to deal an app or some awkward automated screen and keyboard with software written by some kid who has his brain wired backwards , well it seems that way to me .
But why complain this is what you wanted , isnt it ? You shop online ordering all over the world , you order online and get home delivery from local shops , you pay bills online and you get fastfood delivered by wolt ! Everything paid with an app on your phone ! So why should shops maintain an expensive high street presence when all they need is a warehouse and delivery vans . I have just read that Argos and House of fraser are pulling out !
I am regarded as a technophobe ! So tell me technophiles what is the future of the high street ?

The Future of the High Street.

The Lefties, Globalists and World Economic Forum, WEF supporting governments and many local councils are by stealth bringing in the “15 minutes for anything” vision which is and will destroy the small entrepreneurial family/small shops & businesses we used to see in our high streets turning them into (socialist) hubs. Their grand vision is that half of the UK’s existing retail space WILL be repurposed without voter consent into the local council’s view of leisure, hospitality, health and civic use. All sounds so wonderful, and it would be if it wasn’t for the controlling strategy that lies behind it.

We are already witnessing the closure of the high street banks and ATMs.
People who don’t politically conform to their narrative can/will be controlled and declared a Politically Exposed Person, as thousands have already been.
With electronic identity cards and vehicle number plates, individuals will be subject to curfew orders, as we were during the COVID period. Why am I so pessimistic over this?

In my former life, one of my jobs was to monitor the old East Germany then controlled by the feared Stasi the dreaded state security service from 1950 to 1990. All this looks so very familiar to me. Luckily, as we know it eventually crumbled as all extreme socialist systems have.

Change to the high street will inevitably come but please by evolution, not the warped political views of power-hungry politicians.

Thank God in London many pennies have now dropped and the people are fighting back against the introduction in the outer suburbs of ULEZ and the Climate Change zealots which if isn't done by the consent of the voters will impoverish their standard of life.

Thank God yet again we are in Cyprus where much of the above nonsense will just be ignored.

My thoughts anyway before any censorship is applied.

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Clive of Payia

Clive, bought in by stealth ! hmm seems obvious to me, still i am classed by some as a technophobe but only because i dont live my life on the internet, i dont have a smart phone, no credit card, bank ac is empty, i dont have revolt or paypal etc, my life is almost exclusively cash ! i guess those that see the future with rose colour glasses and run around just zapping everything with their phone just dont see it my way.
they should have the freedom to live as they please but i wish to maintain the right to not live their way and not to join in with what i believe what will end up as a big brother, 1984, distopan society. still it would be good if my fears were misplaced !

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Alan Wainright was a Luddite, a Technophobe. He didn’t know the origin of the words but was aware that he was well known to all of his friends as either one or the other. He owned a market garden growing organic vegetables and flowers, no chemical fertilizers involved. The retailing of his produce was from a small farm shop at the end of his site. The clientele knew that all of Alan’s fare was as fresh and natural as you could get anywhere.
He intensely detested the way that the world was going faster and faster, people didn’t think any more they just tapped into a hand held device to find out about everything. On waking they immediately reached for a machine to see what the weather was going to be like for the day, whereas Alan just looked out of the window. Next thing was the device on their wrist which told them how many steps they had taken the previous day, what their body temperature was and how many beats per minute their heart was producing whereas Alan looked at his Timex wristwatch for the time, he knew he was alive because he was awake and yesterday was yesterday who cares how far you walked.
Going to work the modern man got into his electric car, spoke to his satnav device ‘take me to work’ and just had to be there to follow instructions and steer the thing wherever he was told. The car companies were working on eliminating the need for that chore by this time next year whereas Alan got his trusty Raleigh bicycle out of the shed and pedaled his way to work.

Until the day that, without any prior warning, there was a massive solar flare. It shot out from the sun reaching some forty million miles in a matter of minutes. The force was so great and sudden that it sent a massive shock wave of energy into space.
The result of this was that all of the thousands of items in orbit around the planet earth were knocked off course, colliding with each other, spinning off into deep space or spiraling down towards the planet to burn up on re-entry or simply crash into the ground or sea.

Nothing was left up there, no Space stations, no GPS systems, no communication connections, no internet relays, in fact all the new technology and redundant space junk since the launch of Sputnik one and Telstar was gone. It was back to the nineteen fifties in a single stroke.

Politicians and Scientists all over the world cried out “WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?” But nobody could hear them except of course people within hearing distance. No one could go anywhere because they couldn’t read a map or even know where they lived in relation to where they wanted to be. Airplanes couldn’t fly anywhere in case they collided with another airplane both being flown by eyesight only!

The next day Alan Wainwright got up as usual, checked his Timex, looked out of the window, thought that he had better take a mac because it looked like rain, then pedaled to work.
That’s how things should be!

Storyteller , there was a post on facebook showing someone in africa in bed using an elecric hob on the bed to keep warm and next to that a new looking smartphone, i commented, can afford a phone but not a cheap heater, some guy in the usa replied defending the african saying , it is so important to be online and speak to friends and family , i said ,what internet access is more important than food shelter and warmth, the usa said YES ! hell what a sick and twisted society we live in !