Tag: addiction

• Social Distancing is Relative

  Anecdotal It’s 2:30am and I’m in my office working.   Did I mention  I do peculiar hours?  That’s one of my ‘cures for the self-confined’.  More on that soon. Anyway, it’s 2:30am and I’m working.  I have the window open so I hear the sound of agitated pacing clearly.   Around my neighbourhood, if you are out…

  frederick anderson

  April 22, 2020

  Social Comment

  addiction, Alone, Contagion, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Infection, night, Self Isolating, Spread

• View from the Armchair

  Television is a tranquilizer. All winter it is our solace and our comfort, helping us to pass those long, cold nights in peace. Television is, to the twenty-first century, what gin was to the nineteenth. Of course, we don’t like to admit this, because we don’t like to accept we are addicted to television. Just…

  frederick anderson

  August 15, 2015

  Uncategorized

  addiction, appeal, cold turkey, Crisis, medicine, narcosis, programs, sleep, sport, summer, television