Dear Oscar,

Do you know Oscar, in this the Information Age, which is how our particular era is being nominated, we are so saturated with instruction and directive that we are as a consequence thrown back upon our own decision making processes in order to progress, even exist! Which means of course that few instructions are being followed and even fewer directives being obeyed! You have to laugh – in an effort to over control it is actually clear to see that there is always room for subversion, and that any attempts to explain are being misheard, misinterpreted, and basically not understood. Honestly you would not credit it!

Now I know that you were very much the victim of information being disseminated about you, and being interpreted in ways that undermined your position, and you could no doubt argue that lies were told and very unhelpful conclusions drawn, but nowadays it seems that not even the vestiges of truth need to have any currency at all. Absolute fabrications, or interpretations, are given validity, with fiction passed off as fact, with verisimilitude the very essence of belief. History is rewritten to favour certain groups over others, and the people of the ‘mass media’, as well as endlessly promoting themselves, promote an establishment status quo. And yet, apparently, in my part of the globe (Chortleton, for heaven’s sake, that bastion of free thinking – and I say that with sarcasm, of course!), there is ‘freedom of speech’.

You see, Oscar, I do at least have you to talk to, and even though I may be being monitored, I can, it seems, so far anyway, say whatever I need to say. My issue today is that really there is nothing to report that you do not already know! The century or so between us really makes no difference! You understand human nature well enough, and that, it seems, alters little!

Ha ha!

Best wishes to you,

Your friend,

Algernon B Duffoure.