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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Still in moderation!
Not fair.
There has been no indication of how long, no consensus for the need to constrain me and no invitation to absolve myself from whatever transgression I may (or may not have) made.
Not fair.
Stuck your head to far above the parapet? 🙂
Regularly, Anne, but only so I can see what's going on above the fray 🙂
"Matt Doocey says,
“What I want to be very clear about – we should be having gender affirming healthcare where we’re supportive of people and are inclusive.”"
What a dreadful thing to say!! "sarc
https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/matt-doocey-doubles-down-on-trans-healthcare/
"Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood, reduced to a withering weed. Candor and clarity go a long way in fertilizing the soil, but in the end there is always a degree of unpredictability in the climate of communication — even the warmest intention can be met with frost. Yet something impels us to hold these possibilities in both hands and go on surrendering to the beauty and terror of conversation, that ancient and abiding human gift. And the most magical thing, the most sacred thing, is that whichever the outcome, we end up having transformed one another in this vulnerable-making process of speaking and listening."
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/telling-is-listening-ursula-k-le-guin-communication/
Thanks very much, moderator!
More from Ursula – and it's really good!!
"In a sentiment that calls to mind Nikki Giovanni’s magnificent ode to what amoebas know about love that we don’t, Le Guin writes:
This, too, she illustrates with a diagram:
In an exquisite passage at the intersection of biology, anthropology, and sheer literary genius, Le Guin elaborates:
Now if only you could work out how to increase the genetic information to random bodily fluid ratio in your posts you might be on to something. Remembering the purpose is to improve the pool not pee in it.
Ha! Nicely conceived and put!
I'll certainly try to enrich the mix.
(Once I’m released from containment)
(At the weekend, a thoughtful potter told me that traditional Chinese potters peed into their in-the-ground clay resource because the nitrogen in the pee caused a beneficial change to the plasticity of the clay over time and a generation or 2 later, when the clay was dug up for use by the original potter’s grandchildren, it was in the best possible state for potting.)
not so much from Le Guin (who clearly understands the difference between metaphor and material reality), but in the context of the recent transhumanism debate, for some reason I ended up thinking of this Dr Who character. Maybe it was the visual as well.
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Lady_Cassandra_O%27Brien.%CE%9417
Unless of course the purpose is to PR the public to get away with it.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/17/moe-job-cuts-could-see-push-back-of-programmes-onto-schools/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350249067/man-misidentified-bondi-junction-killer-hires-lawyers-sue-seven
Good to hear!
There's too much of this kind of crap going down and innocent people having their lives and reputations screwed up.
excellent.
They're using the junior staffer excuse. Human error, my arse. That's an internal systems failure, and they have form.
Wanting to be the first. In the fast paced online world news is instantaneous – not dependent on the morning early edition to break the news. No time to do sensible checks and balances. Need those clicks.
Ironically there were plenty of clear voices in twitter saying slow down, tai hoa in between the rabid racists and the deliberate misinformation trolls. Rachel Riley burst into print as well getting it all wrong but no doubt adding some legitimacy to peoples views.
Publish and be damned.
He was 'my own Wellington, who sighed over me and groaned over me by the hour, talked of my wonderful beauty, ran after me . . .' and he was 'my constant visitor', a 'modern Bluebeard', 'my old beau'. Harriet Wilson.
If a man stabbing 6 women wasn't a big enough story, they could have covered the social media out of control aspect.
I expect the junior staffer no longer has a career, but I hope that management have some consequences. I'm wondering if it's more than the pressure of speed. They could be short staffed, or using inexperienced staff, just like everyone else while we ignore the pandemic and its consequences.
Yes. A feeble excuse used by certain politicos and tabloid news outlets.
Still in moderation!
I give up.
is there a reason you didn't continue the conversation about moderation the other day?
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-16-04-2024/#comment-1996831
this seems pertinent,
https://thestandard.org.nz/moderation-notes-in-election-year/