I've been thinking about the Overton window a lot lately (thanks to @andrewmarantz's great book) and the way we lose the second awful things become acceptable to discuss. Coronavirus did this to eco-fascism overnight and it will likely only get worsehttps://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/05/coronavirus-leading-rise-eco-fascism …
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This includes my original report on eco-fascism from 2018 when it was relatively unknown/mostly ethnonationalist vegans. I have a bad feeling that in 5 years we'll be able to track how watering it down + co-opting the climate change movement normalised ithttps://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/05/coronavirus-leading-rise-eco-fascism …
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this is really good, if not particularly cheering
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Ah thank you Hugh!
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remember when we bofa'd that dude last time you wrote about this
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that honestly might be the last time i felt joy
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For someone as jolly as you are you sure do write a lot of stuff that makes me lose hope
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i do think my actual personality is incongruous with my internet search history
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Ohhhhhh. I’ll read this when there’s less sun.
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Wow really thoughtful, hella sobering but well written piece. Norse mythology though? That one had me blinking and going whaaat?
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