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Many brilliant thinkers have diagnosed the current state of affairs as a FAILURE of IMAGINATION. @timothydsnyder shared his thoughts this and more on @gaslitnation.
An ordinary reader’s notes in a thread
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gaslit-nation-with-andrea-chalupa-and-sarah-kendzior/id1400926647?i=1000479351415
An ordinary reader’s notes in a thread
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gaslit-nation-with-andrea-chalupa-and-sarah-kendzior/id1400926647?i=1000479351415
A lack of imagination stems from:
1) American exceptionalism;
2) a lack of education, particularly world history;
3) the corporatization of media leading to
in both the breadth (eg, local) as well as the depth (investigative reporting, foreign correspondents) of news sources.
1) American exceptionalism;
2) a lack of education, particularly world history;
3) the corporatization of media leading to
in both the breadth (eg, local) as well as the depth (investigative reporting, foreign correspondents) of news sources.
America has been left with a dumbed down population in which 1/2 are trying to return to a mythical past #MAGA and the other 1/2 spent their childhood consuming other people’s imaginations (via tv & other distractions) instead of exercising and developing their own.
Both groups are desperately trying to make sense of a world which is becoming
increasingly dangerous,
increasingly complex,
increasingly global in scope.
And ALL are suffering from a lack of inspiring leadership.
increasingly dangerous,
increasingly complex,
increasingly global in scope.
And ALL are suffering from a lack of inspiring leadership.
Mr. Snyder also spoke about the shared sense of VALUES required for a strong democracy, for example:
1. People shouldn’t kill other people w/o a reason.
2. People should have a sense of their own history , a record of who victimizes who.
1. People shouldn’t kill other people w/o a reason.
2. People should have a sense of their own history , a record of who victimizes who.
*Race plays a 
role in justice since racism blocks many legal reforms that would help both Black & White alike.
*Trumpism has made plain how our worst instincts have been pandered to for too long.
*Society can be judged by how it treats the least of these @UniteThePoor
role in justice since racism blocks many legal reforms that would help both Black & White alike.*Trumpism has made plain how our worst instincts have been pandered to for too long.
*Society can be judged by how it treats the least of these @UniteThePoor
3. Relatedly, statues are memory politics, not history itself. They go up & get taken down as exercises in the very human impulse toward expressing the values that exist in a particular zeitgeist.
You can’t have history w/o TRUTH TELLERS, witnesses who record the horror.
Without them all you have is tragedy.
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Without them all you have is tragedy.
@sarahkendzior and @AndreaChalupa are two of the best! You can support them (and become one yourself for $5/mo!)
https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
