I like this @michelleinbklyn column about pervasive cultural and political pessimism about the future.https://nyti.ms/30MGVGE
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a recent conversation with Mari about her growing reluctance to watch filmic depictions of dystopic futures. We need practice imagining a positive future, she pointed out, but there are precious few depictions of one.
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This is why I found the AOC/Naomi Klein/etc. video about the Green New Deal so wonderful: there are precious few positive visions of our future. https://youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ
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Also, about the Goldberg column: it’s a little weird how there’s no discussion of who the “we” is. Gibson was born in the US, but he has spent his adult life in Canada. (Klein is the daughter of Vietnam-era exiles to Canada.) Yet there’s no mention of that in the column.
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Klein's family came over during McCarthy era (if I remember correctly), not Vietnam.
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