Wrote dark fantasy novel BLOODANGEL + other stuff. Published by Penguin, Simon+ Schuster, Marie Claire, others. 3x TEDx speaker on creativity.
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Climate crisis reminds me of the Others in GAME OF THRONES. As badly-behaving humans traumatize others, get traumatized, attempt to recover from being traumatized and succeed, or fail:
climate crisis (the true Other) deepens in power and moves to destroy us all.
Justine Musk retweeted
Love this: MSNBC just interviewed a New Hampshire voter who said, “Biden is doing a better job than people give him credit for. He has got a lot done on infrastructure. I believe climate change is real. He has done something on it, almost nobody else has.” Exactly right.
Saying "antisemitism is f*cking evil" isn't referring to anything except a form of irrational hatred of the so-called Other that gives rise to exactly the kind of atrocities that should never be ignored, overlooked or minimized. Just saying.
Saw THE ZONE OF INTEREST with my son: a good movie that drives home the point that antisemitism is f*cking evil.
Justine Musk retweeted
We were on a walk and a man stopped us and said “whatever you do, don’t get him wet or feed him after midnight”
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If we met our internal critic on the street, we’d think he was a total asshole:
There is always something deeply ironic about a powerful white man complaining about being the object of a witch hunt.
Electing a man for President of the United States even though he has an admitted history of sexually harassing women and has been found guilty of sexual assault and defamation in a court of law, seems the very definition of rape culture. Just saying.
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Damn. The judge in the E. Jean Carroll case just said this to the jurors: "It has been determined already that Mr. Trump did sexually assault Ms. Carroll, that he knew when he made the statements about Ms. Carroll that [they] were false, that he made them with reckless disregard"
Trump splits his time between the campaign trail for the presidency of the United States and a New York courtroom in which a jury found him guilty of sexual assault and defamation. How is this even a thing?
"But another faith had been rising in me in those years. Writing. In high school and college, books began to provide the thing that religion couldn't, a sense of meaning, a path to understanding the world."
-- Jess Walter
If our actions and decisions are programmed by intersecting layers of nature and nurture, and consciousness is just a kind of witness to whatever is unfolding, then maybe free will is the sacred mystery: the ultimate glitch.
The idea of la petite mort: how we need intensity to disrupt ourselves. Every small death is followed by a small rebirth. Or, as a woman says to her husband in the Michael Mann movie HEAT: "We have sex, + then you lose the power of speech."
Spirituality and free will require each other. Take away free will, and all you have are algorithms. No spirit. No soul. But also: no mess. You get a different kind of suffering, which for a long time does not appear to be a suffering at all.
Hi @1JessWalter - just to say that BEAUTIFUL RUINS one of my favorite books of recent decades -- and I literally just read, + loved, the opening story "Mr. Voice" in THE ANGEL OF ROME. (...."she eliminated [her multiple boyfriends] like murder suspects...") Happy happy New Year.
