Pro Bono - The whole of the UK, even Farage, is furious with Trump over his remarks about the rest of NATO
Rightly so. He's a moral contagion. He is the hollow man. He is a headpiece stuffed with straw.
He is the reason no one should ever again trust the US. Collectively we are petty, ungrateful, and untrustworthy.
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Fletcher - (Give it five minutes or so, and you’ll hear US Republicans zeroing in on a single word in that entire speech — communist — and firing up their outrage engines accordingly.)
I'm sure you are correct. It saves their listeners the burden of checking out the speech for themselves and trying to make sense of it.
What strikes me about that part of the speech, though, is that it says the exact opposite of what they will try to spin it as saying. Carney is mentioning Havel's greengrocer as a way of saying that he's no longer signaling compliance. He's not calling for quiet, Czech-like endurance, he wants more active resistance.
We all get that because we can read (or listen). The RW pundits' purpose, though, is twofold: to keep their listeners from seeking it out for themselves, and to spread their misrepresentation widely enough and repeat it enough times that they can game the AI bots into giving their disinformation more prominence and make it seem reasonable and valid.
Michael Cain - I think Carney is talking about Canada's energy reserves in order to set them up as an alternative. He's basically outlining the game theory of multilateral and iterative trade as an antidote to the US strategy of All Prisoners Dilemma All The Time. I think it's a plea for the middle people to look to each other and isolate the bullies.
wj - as far as future histories go, John Shirley's Eclipse Trilogy is by far the most on-the-nose thing I have seen as an alternative perspective from which to see our current moment, which is why it continues to scare the crap out of me. I think Paolo Bacigalupi also does an excellent job of future history, and is equally depressing.
What we really need is more gritty anti-dystopian futures, and more optimistic visions in which the world manages to choose Door #2 and it somehow works and creates a better world. Those are the works that nurture hope while we take down the signs in the window that pretend that the old stories are still working.
Pro Bono - The whole of the UK, even Farage, is furious with Trump over his remarks about the rest of NATO
Rightly so. He's a moral contagion. He is the hollow man. He is a headpiece stuffed with straw.
He is the reason no one should ever again trust the US. Collectively we are petty, ungrateful, and untrustworthy.
Fletcher - (Give it five minutes or so, and you’ll hear US Republicans zeroing in on a single word in that entire speech — communist — and firing up their outrage engines accordingly.)
I'm sure you are correct. It saves their listeners the burden of checking out the speech for themselves and trying to make sense of it.
What strikes me about that part of the speech, though, is that it says the exact opposite of what they will try to spin it as saying. Carney is mentioning Havel's greengrocer as a way of saying that he's no longer signaling compliance. He's not calling for quiet, Czech-like endurance, he wants more active resistance.
We all get that because we can read (or listen). The RW pundits' purpose, though, is twofold: to keep their listeners from seeking it out for themselves, and to spread their misrepresentation widely enough and repeat it enough times that they can game the AI bots into giving their disinformation more prominence and make it seem reasonable and valid.
Michael Cain - I think Carney is talking about Canada's energy reserves in order to set them up as an alternative. He's basically outlining the game theory of multilateral and iterative trade as an antidote to the US strategy of All Prisoners Dilemma All The Time. I think it's a plea for the middle people to look to each other and isolate the bullies.
wj - as far as future histories go, John Shirley's Eclipse Trilogy is by far the most on-the-nose thing I have seen as an alternative perspective from which to see our current moment, which is why it continues to scare the crap out of me. I think Paolo Bacigalupi also does an excellent job of future history, and is equally depressing.
What we really need is more gritty anti-dystopian futures, and more optimistic visions in which the world manages to choose Door #2 and it somehow works and creates a better world. Those are the works that nurture hope while we take down the signs in the window that pretend that the old stories are still working.