Turns out, in a logic-defying age of unadulterated stupidity, a new version of the law of the excluded middle is both absolutely vital and simultaneously wholly dispensable…

(philosophyterms.com/law-of-the-e...)

Cultures colliding seems to be the defining issue of our time. As a fellow inhabitant of Middleland I can attest their scars/scores (even from centuries ago) aren’t forgotten - nor the hope that one day they‘ll face a reckoning. Middleland‘s the antithesis of safely southern, metropiltan leadership.

He’s already publicly described a solitary, clumsy, editorial mistake as ‘butchery’ and ‘fraud’. That alone ought to merit a counter-suit of defamation from the BBC. In the absence of any honourable billionaires, perhaps the world’s genuine democratic nations in favour of the truth might fund it?

I (just) remember Wilson’s government & the sense of radical change it championed. Every area of life - including music, drama, film as well as rights, justice, education, health - saw a gauntlet thrown to any past, rigid, sense of ourselves. Suddenly, gigantic hope. Almost (but never quite) scary.

… in which neurologist Dr Shahrukh Mallik makes repeated, tantalising, reference to market mechanisms and strategies hollowing out trust in conventional medicine, and even in the value of the scientific method itself: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

What you’re doing/thinking/writing/saying is so important. Usurping and burying the scope for the truth to make headway in any democratic argument is now so widespread it’s unignorable: Today, this: bsky.app/profile/byli...

but also lurking in this podcast episode
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…ultimately, what’s going to happen - even if everyone knows what the truth is - the government’s just going to do what the technocrats say.
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“…that they need to do these things like austerity without any public deliberation because that’s what has to happen…The deliberation’s replaced by technocratic decision-making…
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Fantastically helpful.Thank you.
I was also struck by this (ie before he uttered the first section of the bungled, merging of two clips)
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The crowd, whipped up by weeks of Trump tweeting “steal!”, fed the speaker. And emboldened him. “Fight” was already in their minds. He simply made it a rallying cry.
#CrowdPleaser
(On Jan 6th before Trump even said they’d “walk down to the Capitol”. Full transcript: www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...)

I wish we‘d all read Milan Kundera again, before the whole world turns to totalitarian kitsch….