Occupy my brain
I feel like at least once a day I’m recommending people to read this article, so it’s about time I immortalised it on here. My homeboy Ben Gook managed to write what I think about politics both in Washington, Phnom Penh, Melbourne and the provinces, without swearing or being condescending once! Far better job than me.
So what is the other lesson to take from history?
History shows us that those movements that persist and act with broad support can shift the very coordinates of the system from which they set out.
Today’s “sensible cynics” may scoff from the sidelines: but, then, cynicism and disavowal are leading features of ideology today.
Snark comes easily, change does not.
Foreclosing early on future possibilities is the conservative’s wager.
So please check it out. And then I can stop telling everyone to read it already.
