...drafted a very bad first draft of the afterword of my book. Everything easily fixed. But in trying to say too much too quickly (and as a result struggling to say anything at all), it reminded me of how our own voice is lost when we start to unconsciously fret about the anticipated critiques...
good that TVNZ are broadcasting the game free to air. But a very NZ version of free to air. Your team makes the #worldcup and you don't even send a local commentary team. And you help pay for it all by bringing a betting company into studio for some advertorial
PS great goal though
... as if I need to sign off with stupid blah blah blah about ‘what I’m saying/not saying”. And burden the reader with laboured clarification of points that had been made in a brisker way earlier. When the maxim should instead be: hold the line & bring out the key point in the sharpest way possible
....you are repeating points you made before and which you didn't need to make again. The flow (ultimately a bogus flow; like a simulacra of the flow state) obscures the failure to think in a way where you might say something different, or maybe say something more clearly than you said it before
@maxsoar.bsky.social this prompts a thought. You read anything good on RFK's (anti-science) scientism?
....and an additional note on the psychodynamics of writing. When I was drafting the afterword, it felt easy - actually so easy it had me wary. The ego congratulating itself on the mastery of the material. But the more you write the more you realise it flows so easily because...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
Here, for channel 4, my colleague @robtoes.bsky.social gives the clearest most direct explication I’ve seen on ‘mainstream’ media: the link between social media, elite political projects (forged over time), money making and white nationalism.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-Y...
If anyone is interested...the long version of the argument about the far right's enthusiasm for "accountability talk"
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IMBKX...
When civil servants fuck up they should be held "accountable" as everyone – and not least the far right – likes to say. But maybe the always on-brand Peters has been road-testing local variations of "lock her up" at the NZ First focus groups #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
The Fast-Track is a War on Nature
Many of the proposed fast-track projects threaten conservation land - ecologically essential landscapes which have been placed under protection for future generations...
