Brian Eno: The feeling that things are inevitably going to get worse (2009)(theguardian.com)
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Brian Eno: The feeling that things are inevitably going to get worse (2009)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jan/02/brian-eno-edge-question-future
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“Miss United States told her thoughts about the Clinton scandal, saying it was wrong and not right. Thank You Miss United States, we'll really be looking forward to hearing more of your ideas at the next boat show!”
— Norm Macdonald, SNL Weekend Update, circa 1997
— Norm Macdonald, SNL Weekend Update, circa 1997
We are clearly seeing this happen in real time. The fear started in right wing circles as civil rights expanded and now they are in control and acting like a “lifeboat in hostile waters” yet their policies aim to hurt everyone not just the minorities people like Steven Miller openly and hatefully despise.
Sometimes people lose a track of reality and conservatives have always been those people to remind them. What can be achieved and what needs to happen are directly proportional to each other.
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On the other hand, when you want to get some plan funded, something which will help real individual people, it is going to be conservatives first in line to block such a thing from coming to fruition. Public libraries are an example of something I think could not come into being today for this reason.
And thank you for posting this, because it made me think of Sir Noël Coward's banger song "There are bad times just around the corner" (1952) [1], which I hadn't listened to in years.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khEmMfMVsv4