"What kind of high cultural highlights are going to come out of a performing arts center whose sole creative directors are a slumlord and a fucking spook?"
Grenell isn't even a spook. Before he was trump's last DNI, he was the ambassador to Germany. He was still a fucking creep and a giant asshole, though.
As to the broader point of your essay, it sucks that nobody gave these internally tortured gourds a guitar or a bass or a pair of drumsticks, along with a copy of Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit or Minor Threat's Complete Discography. How much misery could have been avoided if these gamergate-incubated neo-colonialists had just started a punk band in high school, like the rest of us weirdos...
So, I've been reading "The Earth Transformed" by Peter Frankopan at bedtime. It's nice to remember that no matter how badly we have fucked or been fucked by this planet in the past, generally we at least hold on by the skins of our fuckin' teeth.
A bunch of people will suffer & die who probably didn't need to, because of the leadership decisions we have made. But the species will (probably) survive. Maybe. It might help if we changed leadership. Lots of historical precedents for ways that could happen, all of which are fine with me, as long as it happens.
It's dizzying! There was something that happened a couple weeks ago that I was reminded of a few hours ago. I was like "oh yeah, that was a thing that happened pretty recently." And I've ALREADY forgotten what it was.
"What kind of high cultural highlights are going to come out of a performing arts center whose sole creative directors are a slumlord and a fucking spook?"
Grenell isn't even a spook. Before he was trump's last DNI, he was the ambassador to Germany. He was still a fucking creep and a giant asshole, though.
As to the broader point of your essay, it sucks that nobody gave these internally tortured gourds a guitar or a bass or a pair of drumsticks, along with a copy of Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit or Minor Threat's Complete Discography. How much misery could have been avoided if these gamergate-incubated neo-colonialists had just started a punk band in high school, like the rest of us weirdos...
So, I've been reading "The Earth Transformed" by Peter Frankopan at bedtime. It's nice to remember that no matter how badly we have fucked or been fucked by this planet in the past, generally we at least hold on by the skins of our fuckin' teeth.
A bunch of people will suffer & die who probably didn't need to, because of the leadership decisions we have made. But the species will (probably) survive. Maybe. It might help if we changed leadership. Lots of historical precedents for ways that could happen, all of which are fine with me, as long as it happens.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/climate-a-lost-history-peter-frankopan/
OMG has it really only been three weeks? ,😵
It's dizzying! There was something that happened a couple weeks ago that I was reminded of a few hours ago. I was like "oh yeah, that was a thing that happened pretty recently." And I've ALREADY forgotten what it was.