I deeply appreciate that -- after your forensic analysis of exploitative and protean hypocrisy and the political/media incapacity or paralysis of mechanisms of accountability-- you nonetheless provided some hope and action options on the lyrical final paragraph.
reading this makes me wanna write again, about proper stuff, the stuff I can’t quite articulate yet… without falling down into a rabbit hole of despair that is.
congrats.
the last part made me think of performance art, and how sometimes the authenticity is in the artifice. paradox but kinda not. maybe like a koan.
I deeply appreciate that -- after your forensic analysis of exploitative and protean hypocrisy and the political/media incapacity or paralysis of mechanisms of accountability-- you nonetheless provided some hope and action options on the lyrical final paragraph.
your words are a balm as always, dean!
Let’s hope we find more keyholes.
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reading this makes me wanna write again, about proper stuff, the stuff I can’t quite articulate yet… without falling down into a rabbit hole of despair that is.
congrats.
the last part made me think of performance art, and how sometimes the authenticity is in the artifice. paradox but kinda not. maybe like a koan.
Anyone who has ever argued with a sibling as a child knows how far truth and being right gets you.
Hahaha there is definitely a precise way of being right with your sibling, and everything else leads to madness.
I’ve long believed most of society’s problems trace back to the hypocrisy of the powerful. I despise hypocrisy more than I do bad fiction.