Geoffrey Firmin
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48 THIS CENSUS-TAKER A Novella by China Mieville
There has been a war, then civil disturbance then a diaspora. Some people live in a city some like the key maker, his wife and son live on the hill. Then murder most foul ensurse and the childs world is torn asunder. The child decamps from home to be embraced by a group of parentless children, however he is soon returned to his father. After a number of futile attemps to escape then the Census-Taker arrives.
A very weird disassociated stroy from beginning to end. No explanation is given as to how or why this story occurs. It is just a fragment but highly entertaining.
Recommended.
49 Black Panther & The Crew: We are the streets by Ta-Nehisi Coates & Yona Harvey
Begins with an interesting premise about social justice, revolutionary politics and a murder most foul. Told from the perspective of multiple voices. However as it was cancelled and only ran for six issues it doesn’t live up to the potential that the long story arc which was originally envisaged could deliver, pity.
50 Out of the Wreckage A New Politics For An Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
As the old Chinese curse sates ‘May you live in interesting times” and indeed we do. Dominant ideologies on both the reactionary right and the left are fractured. People on both sides of the political spectrum want an alternative to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. The reactionary right with its white supremacy, fascist demagogues and narrow mindedness offer only fear and anger. The left is a broad church has too many parishioners with varying agendas petitioning the public consciousness to provide specific solutions to the current imbroglio.
What is a citizen to do?
Monbiot joins a growing number of citizens who seek sanity in politics and is willing to look beyond failed party dogma to propose solutions for a shared future. After all we all have to live on planet Earth together and he is not proposing that the UN run the world. He proposes that citizens generate new political narratives. Ones which express intelligence, compassion, and activism via ideas which can cut through the entrenched impasse of our times.
An impassioned plea to change the script of the political narrative’s we have been living with since 1945. Positive food for both the body politic and the individual attempting see past the global miasma that evolves mainstream political discourse. And he is not just preaching to the converted or sermonising from the pulpit. Highly Recomended.
There has been a war, then civil disturbance then a diaspora. Some people live in a city some like the key maker, his wife and son live on the hill. Then murder most foul ensurse and the childs world is torn asunder. The child decamps from home to be embraced by a group of parentless children, however he is soon returned to his father. After a number of futile attemps to escape then the Census-Taker arrives.
A very weird disassociated stroy from beginning to end. No explanation is given as to how or why this story occurs. It is just a fragment but highly entertaining.
Recommended.
49 Black Panther & The Crew: We are the streets by Ta-Nehisi Coates & Yona Harvey
Begins with an interesting premise about social justice, revolutionary politics and a murder most foul. Told from the perspective of multiple voices. However as it was cancelled and only ran for six issues it doesn’t live up to the potential that the long story arc which was originally envisaged could deliver, pity.
50 Out of the Wreckage A New Politics For An Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
As the old Chinese curse sates ‘May you live in interesting times” and indeed we do. Dominant ideologies on both the reactionary right and the left are fractured. People on both sides of the political spectrum want an alternative to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. The reactionary right with its white supremacy, fascist demagogues and narrow mindedness offer only fear and anger. The left is a broad church has too many parishioners with varying agendas petitioning the public consciousness to provide specific solutions to the current imbroglio.
What is a citizen to do?
Monbiot joins a growing number of citizens who seek sanity in politics and is willing to look beyond failed party dogma to propose solutions for a shared future. After all we all have to live on planet Earth together and he is not proposing that the UN run the world. He proposes that citizens generate new political narratives. Ones which express intelligence, compassion, and activism via ideas which can cut through the entrenched impasse of our times.
An impassioned plea to change the script of the political narrative’s we have been living with since 1945. Positive food for both the body politic and the individual attempting see past the global miasma that evolves mainstream political discourse. And he is not just preaching to the converted or sermonising from the pulpit. Highly Recomended.
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