A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
"the very nature of social media discourse requires you to stand your ground like Jeremy Vine behind that truck and die with your metaphorical Brompton of Righteousness rather than acknowledge that someone with an opposing view may very well have a valid point."
I couldn't stand him on the radio either.
Please give me what Monbiot calls ‘bucolic fairytales’ or ‘neo-peasant bullshit’ and what I call agrarian localism, agrarian populism or a small farm future over this sad dualism.
Glad to see that Chris Smaje has embarked on a series of articles about his new book: Saying NO to a Farm Free Future.
What's a person to do?
I'm sure there is something to this.
Long, and fascinating, preamble to the essential point.
My treating Wolf like a branding problem would be about as off-brand as I could get.
Fascinating read, and now I am trying to think whether I have ever mistaken the Naomis.