podcast friday

[sabotabby]

 It's three years into the new year and already the sadness has set in, so please check out Conspirituality's short interview with Rebecca Solnit. Solnit has made a career out of reminding us that if the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be unnecessary. The opposite of despair isn't hope, it's agency. Though of course, Solnit talks a lot about hope too, not as a solution but as a practice.

I really appreciated this talk. I listened to it, and last night, I went out with my neighbourhood group and put up Palestine posters all over the street. Which I was going to do anyway, but it's a reminder to get up and do a thing. Just do it. Don't wait for someone else to start. That thing will lead to doing other things.

Comments

[blogcutter]

I love that thought that the opposite of despair is not hope but agency. Although without the feeling of hope and faith, maybe we'd never get as far as the agency?

[blogcutter]

Hmmm, good points. You've given me some food for thought.

[smhwpf]

I've never heard her voice before. It's higher than I expected.
I got so angry with her year because of her almost complete silence on Gaza, and her uncritical cheerleading of Biden and Harris,
I've more or less forgiven her, just about. But I was unhealthily obsessed for quite a while about how bad she was on this. Not that she was pro-Israel, she said enough to be clear she wasn't, but that she seemed to treat it as a side issue to be passed over for the sake of beating Trump.
But she is so good and wise on so many things.

[flamingsword]

*saves episode to play while knitting*