“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here I am aware of the pointlessness of this … letter, but I do not know quite what to do at this point other than maunder about aimlessly and pay attention to my heart flame out in reaction to what is occurring today. I know I am not alone in wondering how to effectively oppose, through some meaningful process, the destruction on its way, this ascendant sociopathic capitalism and its avatars. This Inauguration […]
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You Can Listen Here Winter here is no longer a sustained season. The warming planet has made SE PA a new season, a dripping, mud-slick gray interval, a 40 to 50 degree misery of fog and sudden ice spots, of ice more than snow, of damp more than cold. Thus, when very cold temperatures hit, teens and single digits, our bodies react ever more acutely. We lack the conditioning of past years. So for […]
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You Can Listen Here Think of how small and besieged one’s life can feel under the minute by minute pressure of Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, texts, live-streaming events, and the news and culture feeds popping up by the second on our phone’s screens. Think about how the speed and volume of those feeds are growing — imagine high pressure hoses whose nozzles expand almost daily, whose dimensions of images and information have become an outpouring […]
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You Can Listen Here The Underground Railroad is a book to be reread. Once is not enough. It fulfills the paradox of very good novels. They give life to those who never lived. They are resurrectionists of the forgotten dead and creators of those never born but anonymous and alive. They give names to some and also draw forth the actions of the unnamed. In Whitehead’s pre-Civil War America, slavery is the defining reality: […]
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