I only write on this blog when my life is too miserable to do anything else.
No doubt I will be back. But for now I'm done.
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Social media is not news
I wish the BBC and newspapers here would stop reporting what people have said on social media. That is not news.
You wouldn't say in a report "X was overheard saying Y in a pub about Z" so why dignify the digital equivalent with a higher status than it deserves.
Saturday, 12 November 2016
What The Fuck 2016?
Sorry for the strong language, but it kinda seems appropriate. What is wrong with 2016? It seems like it's not enough for one of my heroes to be dying every 5 minutes... no, the democratic world seems to have gone insane.
It's not that I think people are making the wrong choices. It's that they are being presented with terrible options and then picking one in completely irrational ways.
Is this the best we can do? Come on. This is everyone's problem. Blaming other people for voting the other way wont help. And blaming people for being unhappy with the results wont help either.
We need better options. We need more options. A binary choice might seem easy, but we need people to have to think more than that. And we need leaders who can work together not fight over who is telling the bigger lies.
World, get a fucking grip, please!
It's not that I think people are making the wrong choices. It's that they are being presented with terrible options and then picking one in completely irrational ways.
Is this the best we can do? Come on. This is everyone's problem. Blaming other people for voting the other way wont help. And blaming people for being unhappy with the results wont help either.
We need better options. We need more options. A binary choice might seem easy, but we need people to have to think more than that. And we need leaders who can work together not fight over who is telling the bigger lies.
World, get a fucking grip, please!
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