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  "Easter Rest, Easter Silence or Easter Peace?" Part 7 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz The Cytara-series ‘After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story’ goes on. The last story played during Christmas holidays. Now we are back in the house of grandmother Naomi who invited the family to an Easter brunch. Grandmother’s stories about the revolution after the pandemic are legendary and are lessons for her daughter Joyce and granddaughter Sarah how to observe the political system for implementing a ‘change’ like it became a popular practice among citizens in the years already before the pandemic. The wish for the reconstruction of political and economic systems had grown out from many seeds which were set over decades. Whether it’s racism respectively the inequality in society which became at last through the transparency of digital administration for everyone visual and was diagnosed as an old structural problem on it’s way to the future,...

"Peace Is a Fragile Thing" Part 6 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz The Christmas tree stands half decorated in the side hall of the three parted glass and steel building of the winter garden. "History tells us that revolutions are a constant and necessary for the development of society. Revolutionary movements are like bells who signal war in societies where the legislation stands against the changes new technologies, migration waves, climate for example bring. After years of struggling with new challenges such as digitization which reformed people's life- and work worlds, the pandemic topped the list of problems in 2020. And in 2021, we experienced how fragile peace can be.”  Grandmother Naomi takes another box for storing the glass balls after the festivities. The Christmas tree decorations contain figures, houses,  trees, animals. When turned upside down, snowflakes begin to trickle over the small sized stage-like dis...