Judges refusing to let defendants explain their motives is nowt new....
"This isn't a court of justice, son, this is a court of law"... and all that. This below from David Harris's memoir "Dreams Die Hard" is worth remembering as Just Stop Oil people get done for contempt...
View ArticleAyn Rand, climate change and food vulnerability
It's funny what stays with you. When I was 20 I went through a very brief Ayn Rand "phase." For those not familiar - she's a loony tunes author and "philosopher" for whom anything that wasn't...
View ArticleYou stay put, circumstances change around you… #schismogenesis #FieldDynamics
What seemed "radical" a couple of years previously gets overtaken by 'events' and - frankly, by other people needing to stake out more extreme/holier-than-thou edgelord positions in order to...
View Article“well-intentioned but hollow rhetoric” about organisation longevity once it...
I said it was the price I had to pay to be my own persona and that I was prepared to pay it. The Resistance, I claimed, would carry on its struggle in jail and also out. Our bodies might be locked up,...
View ArticleThen (in 1969) it fell apart… of space cadets and proto-Leninists…
This from David Harris "Dreams Die Hard" is absolutely on point. I know I've posted a lot from this book, but it really really should be read by anyone who gives a damn... If 1968 was the year when...
View ArticleThe end of the 1960s –“Nothing was changed, but everything was different”
So, here is another quote from "Dreams Die Hard" by David Harris - him in prison for having burnt his draft card and encouraged others to do the same. He is visited by a former mentor, Allard...
View ArticleThe first rule of smugosphere is, nobody talks about smugosphere....
Ugh. Listened to some podcasts while walking along the canal tow-path feeding the moorhens. Love those moorhens. The podcasts? Not so much. There's so much smug self-congratulatory circle-jerking going...
View ArticleDunning-Kruger, fnords and the smugosphere (homeosmugopheric mechnanisms)
I am fascinated by failure - personal, movement, species (not that the three are distinct, of course, but that's for another time). (see previous blog post, to which this is a sequel). How is it we...
View ArticleOn knowing (how) to walk away (and when to run)
Couple of things here. First up, the song "Angel of the Morning" a big hit some 40+ years ago for Juice Newton. Lyrics are about, well, how to break it clean. What Erica Jong called a "zipless fuck"...
View ArticlePerversity, Futility and Jeopardy – the watchwords of delay.
According to the perversity thesis, any purposive action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order only serves to exacerbate the condition one wishes to remedy (compare:...
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