{"id":10037,"date":"2022-10-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2022-10-27T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T13:48:48","slug":"incredible-who-would-have-thought-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/incredible-who-would-have-thought-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible! Who would have thought it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s hard to believe that in 2022 the world would feel upside down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much has happened in the past few years; the Queen died, there was a global pandemic, a war in Ukraine, a third Prime Minister in three moths, cost of living crisis and interest rates rising at an alarming rate for some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boris blew his overwhelming mandate to govern, with the assistance of the media and others, allowing a huge swing in opinion of an unelectable opposition only a few years ago. The Conservatives being relegated to talk of extinction!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the news, talk of nuclear war!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what really matters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can there ever be world peace and security, a utopia that provides a civilization without conflict and harmony amongst nations, where the world feels the right way up?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sadly that will never happen and despite the best efforts of the finest religious and world leaders there will always be an opposing view or interpretation of idealic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one view that appears to be shifting is a realisation that the world has finite resources and our dependency on them and from others, is not the best way forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The environment needs to be protected so that humanity can survive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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