Brilliant and sobering. Speaking of 'it was ever thus' I've just read Olivia Laing's The Silver Book which on the surface is a glossy queer noirish story in a glittering world of cinema, but actaully is about Pasonli's prophetic vision in 1975 of the dystopia we are in now -- suppressed even then by most (though not all) news and certainly by the powers that be. I look at my granchildren -- 5 and 9 -- and so want to stay optimistic, but the power imbalance...
As someone who trained as a journalist in what seems like another life, I, too, "never thought I’d become the sort of person who would grow to distrust the news as it’s reported on telly and in newspapers". And so I stay away from it as much as possible, including pieces such as the one your husband shared. Instead, I cling to Rebecca Solnit's rallying cry that no-one knows what's going to happen, and never f**king surrender. Even though collapse is already underway, and even though my capacity is much reduced atm, a life-giving future remains ours to make instead of the AI-driven billionaire dystopia.
Brilliant piece Lindsay. I’m also clinging to Rebecca Solnits coattails… Her new book The Beginning Comes After the End of helping me a lot right now….
Brilliant and sobering. Speaking of 'it was ever thus' I've just read Olivia Laing's The Silver Book which on the surface is a glossy queer noirish story in a glittering world of cinema, but actaully is about Pasonli's prophetic vision in 1975 of the dystopia we are in now -- suppressed even then by most (though not all) news and certainly by the powers that be. I look at my granchildren -- 5 and 9 -- and so want to stay optimistic, but the power imbalance...
As someone who trained as a journalist in what seems like another life, I, too, "never thought I’d become the sort of person who would grow to distrust the news as it’s reported on telly and in newspapers". And so I stay away from it as much as possible, including pieces such as the one your husband shared. Instead, I cling to Rebecca Solnit's rallying cry that no-one knows what's going to happen, and never f**king surrender. Even though collapse is already underway, and even though my capacity is much reduced atm, a life-giving future remains ours to make instead of the AI-driven billionaire dystopia.
Brilliant piece Lindsay. I’m also clinging to Rebecca Solnits coattails… Her new book The Beginning Comes After the End of helping me a lot right now….
Yes- all of this 💔
Wow. Thank you for saying it. And so beautifully. Happy Birthday (I guess?!) xxx
All the more reason to get off socoal media and live. What stunning writing. Sobering. Happy birthday x