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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I'm working from memory so not a full correction! We should ask Naomi
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For a long time I’ve wanted to read a book about how the Canadian left has been reshaped by McCarthy- and Vietnam-era US exiles. I talked about writing it for a while, but I think it needs an intellectual historian, and I’m not that.
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Canada got Jane Jacobs and the Kleins while it sent America Father Coughlin, Mark Steyn, Richard John Neuhaus, David Frum, David Brooks and Charles Krauthammer. A fair deal!
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Canada also got (via parents) Svend Robinson and Judy Rebick and others I’m forgetting at the moment.
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(Also I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know about Brooks or Coughlin!)
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To be fair, I think Brooks only spent a little time in Canada.
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