Thanks for this illuminating — and hopefully somehow galvanizing! — post. You capture our predicament so well with these sentences: “Each of us is the pilot of our own internaut capsule, hurtling through space in a cockpit tagged with our “@” handles, with a field of vision that makes it seem the whole globe is at arm’s length but still untouchable. We have information without form, connectivity without collectivity.”
Who wants to be right about this..https://trkingston.bandcamp.com/track/dont-wanna-be-right-about-this 'All the narrative struggle that we need is in the culture we created. But it’s clear what we’ll lose if we start closing doors on each other and siloing culture away from each other in the name of appropriation. Let’s not take our greatest liberal asset and sterilize it with a clique. Correspondingly, back-lash is not a reason for fascism." https://trkingston.substack.com/p/america-heal-thyself
'There is a little town in north Ontario, where Scott Young Public School stands. Scott Young, father of Neil Young, lived much of his adult life in Omemee, just over the hill from Peterborough, Ontario. Scott the writer and sports journalist, famously fired from Hockey Night In Canada for rubbing a sponsor the wrong way, had a penchant for speaking his mind. Neil, the prodigious musician and performer, cut from the same cloth, speaks his own mind still, out among us, rockin in the free world. It’s hard to imagine but for a young Canadian boy of a certain time, Scott was the Young known by name, first. Scrubs On Skates.
It would be much better if a song could cut through the moment we are living in. Ohio - Southern Man, but alas this is not the case. We must defer to the father figure, Scott and the backbone he showed standing up to sponsors and owners. Sports and its corporate interests are what drives culture these days. Guts, glory and gambling. https://trkingston.substack.com/p/russia-plays-usa-the-no-nation-cup
Thanks for this illuminating — and hopefully somehow galvanizing! — post. You capture our predicament so well with these sentences: “Each of us is the pilot of our own internaut capsule, hurtling through space in a cockpit tagged with our “@” handles, with a field of vision that makes it seem the whole globe is at arm’s length but still untouchable. We have information without form, connectivity without collectivity.”
We belong together. "The manifestation emerges. We face our darkest hour. I turn to music to remember who we are and why we do what we do." https://rickieleejones.substack.com/p/episode-ii-folk-rock-dylan-to-little
A "pop for DEI" tour?
I really feel this post in my bones.
Who wants to be right about this..https://trkingston.bandcamp.com/track/dont-wanna-be-right-about-this 'All the narrative struggle that we need is in the culture we created. But it’s clear what we’ll lose if we start closing doors on each other and siloing culture away from each other in the name of appropriation. Let’s not take our greatest liberal asset and sterilize it with a clique. Correspondingly, back-lash is not a reason for fascism." https://trkingston.substack.com/p/america-heal-thyself
'There is a little town in north Ontario, where Scott Young Public School stands. Scott Young, father of Neil Young, lived much of his adult life in Omemee, just over the hill from Peterborough, Ontario. Scott the writer and sports journalist, famously fired from Hockey Night In Canada for rubbing a sponsor the wrong way, had a penchant for speaking his mind. Neil, the prodigious musician and performer, cut from the same cloth, speaks his own mind still, out among us, rockin in the free world. It’s hard to imagine but for a young Canadian boy of a certain time, Scott was the Young known by name, first. Scrubs On Skates.
It would be much better if a song could cut through the moment we are living in. Ohio - Southern Man, but alas this is not the case. We must defer to the father figure, Scott and the backbone he showed standing up to sponsors and owners. Sports and its corporate interests are what drives culture these days. Guts, glory and gambling. https://trkingston.substack.com/p/russia-plays-usa-the-no-nation-cup