Another on-the-fly post because I need to be working. Three immediate things Anxiety referrals through the roof for kids - Guardian reports NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels ‘Jaw-dropping’ number of children in England with anxiety shocks even professionals Second - someone who tweets up a necessary storm about climate... Continue Reading →
“COP This!” – Climate activist publication from December 2000 abt COP-6 at The Hague
Just a nice bit of history, from a generation ago.... Can't say we didn't know...
Being 15 – sweet innocent and underprotected, or Evil Mastermind Who Deserves Damnation? #Adultification #WhiteSkinPrivilege
Short post, because should be working. Kirstie Allsop, who is some sort of television presenter (1) is being hauled over the coals because she let her 15 year old son go interrailing with his older brother (or someone older, I can't be bothered to read beyond the headlines) Some (e.g. Ally Fogg) are suggesting this... Continue Reading →
Metaphors for thinking about power: the tug of war
You can come up with all the elaborate diagrams and schema you like for thinking and talking about power. They'll definitely be read by reviewers one and two (it is always reviewer two, innit?). And once it's published in some paywalled journal it will be read by, ooh, a dozen or so other people. World-changing.... Continue Reading →
Post-mortems that are deadening…
We're now at the stage where "movement" "intellectuals" are willing to say in public what anyone with two brain cells (#NotAllMovementIntellectuals) has known for years - that the GretaXR 'wave' of climate concern is well and truly dead. And since we're talking about the Last Great British Wail, let's quote Lou Read - "Stick a... Continue Reading →
Videos of Michael Falk, “The Autistic Reporter” from Onion News Network
These are, imho, fricking hilarious. Perfectly scripted, acted, and really helpful too. I am only aware of five - if you know of others, lemme know... Now, in no particular order The missing hikers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ROoNT7-ZI The funeral for the victim of a stray-bullet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx5WJjXmuQI The dead Americans and dead Taliban https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb5rHthCXoA Man hit by train... Continue Reading →
Masculinity, coal and… Weetabix. I kid you not
This from the early 1970s. Back when coal-mining was a suitable analogy for masculinity, and was used to sell... breakfast cereal. Somebody could probably squeeze a Master's thesis, taking historical, cultural, energy humanities, Freudian and environmental humanities perspectives on all this. Throw in some Haraway, some Merchant, Jung, etc. Whatever, life is too short.
“Two kinds of people” – fundamental attribution errors, shaping the rules and “the clap clinic”
Okay, so this cartoon below is amusing, but also limited. It's limited because it assumes that behaviour is mostly shaped by "what kind of person you are" (this is known in the trade as the fundamental attribution error). The problem with the FAE (or one of them) is that it leads to fatalism/shoulder-shrugging by people... Continue Reading →
“Fascism simply burst like a soap bubble” – what not to say when your boss is Hitler… or “Doing a Jodl”
One of the many MANY skills I have never mastered (1) is saying the right thing to people who can make life easier or harder. I think making "unhelpful" (career or life-limiting) observations about sensitive topics should be called "doing a Jodl." That above is from Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich." According to Groser... Continue Reading →
Where does this come from, who is to blame, what is to be done? The usual questions
Those people in the hotel in Rotherham must have been absolutely terrified. Sure, there may well be "economic migrants" among them, but I bet you a bunch have fled war zones, survived all sorts of horrors on the journey that cost the lives of many others. And they arrive in the Civilized West (1) and... Continue Reading →
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