@timhollo
Climate, democracy, ecology, music, dad jokes Author of “Living Democracy: an ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it.” Blogging at http://in-between-days.ghost.io He/they On stolen Ngunnuwal land https://linktr.ee/timhollo
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Fair 🤣
Hehehe
Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”
And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…
RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline
“People are dying - in Iran, in Palestine, in Israel & Lebanon & the USA - because of this fucked up idea of freedom as based on the capacity to visit violence upon the other. Surely, it is this pathological mythology, above all, that we have to work out how to let go of. It's the rotting corpse”
"To be free, one must be feared" said Macron
This utterly pathological idea is why people are dying tonight in Iran. And in Palestine. And in Lebanon and Israel and the USA.
Fear can destroy freedom. It can never create it.
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"To be free, one must be feared" said Macron
This utterly pathological idea is why people are dying tonight in Iran. And in Palestine. And in Lebanon and Israel and the USA.
Fear can destroy freedom. It can never create it.
in-between-days.ghost.io/nukes-for-fr...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Yess! Tech is easy, people are hard. And collaboration is power. Another great piece of writing from Tim.
Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
This.
Why we need to care about each other.
Hannah Arendt is always a good for a reminder that we need to live together.
That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
On the 'hard skill' of winning freedom thru collaboration.
"The only true freedom is in collaborative action, where we voluntarily participate, seeking our path through and with the group."
Thrival is a community not individualist effort.
#democracy #goodgovernance #birthingthenew
Arendt 1, Leeser 0.
I've supervised group student assignments. Meeting 1 always included the 'how will we work together fairly' conversation.
Maybe universities should be teaching this!
Collaboration across all aspects.
“We are, and always will be, responsible for each other, and have to learn to live with the consequences of each others' actions. It's a silly libertarian fantasy to pretend otherwise.”
In which I pit Julian Leeser against Hannah Arendt
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A must read!
Yeah, I was thinking of expanding the piece into mushrooms and poison and mind-altering, but it was already long enough!
Here are some wandering wonderings on the echoing implications of our relationship with death
There’s a trigger warning on this one
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It is such a detectable effect. I really see the people who're still basting their brains with Musk's juices as almost formally different people than who they were before 2023 now. I don't think they're even largely consciously aware they're using right-wing slang, shifting right in their views etc
More and more of us willing to put our names to this
Oh, Jon Kudelka. Devastating loss. You could never come across a more delightful curmudgeon. But his skills in cutting to the quick of an issue and spearing hypocrisy were second to none. Pour out a whiskey and toast his memory.
I actually see the working for policy outcomes within the crumbling system as the bandaid, and this work as primary health care - helping improve general health. But yeah
Yeah, no, I don’t think at all they’d change the fundamentals of capitalism… But they would maybe help cultivate the foundations of the new world as capitalism crumbles.
Oh yes, the movement needs to be far bigger than the party! It’s always been one of the biggest problems the Greens face. But in this context, it’s crucial that we see the party as one small aspect of the world-building project.
Maybe? I think so? While we still have this very very broken and problematic system of electoral democracy… On our way to some form of municipal confederalism or something…
Typically interesting thoughts from Tim here, looking at both the promise and the limitations of left populism and the imaginative frames it offers.
