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Are you an academic or a future one but are frustrated with [gestures at the US and the rest of the world] you know... the fascism? This is for you:
The anti-autocracy handbook mentioned in the video can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/15696097
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Who Lies? - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: infomgmtexec.me American Cinquain (2-4-6-8-2) Who Lies?In a cold post truth worldquestions without answerare so common but one abides -who lies? Copyright 2025 Ā©ļøPaul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved Ā®ļø
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Getting on a bit.
Iām getting on a bit now (for those of you in other countries that means getting old). I forget things, so I have to write lots of notes and keep notes on my phone. Notifications from my phone-calendar help too. I just started writing this post, and guess what, I couldnāt remember how to do it. Fortunately, I remembered I needed to log in, eventually. A bad memory can sometimes be an advantage.ā¦
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Adam Curtis: A good political film makes people reflect on themselves. The problem is that over the past 30 or 40 years, the movies that call themselves political have actually been the very opposite. They groom their audiences by saying to them: āYou are right to think and believe the way you do.ā In that way, they encourage people to wallow in their self-righteousness and so block any self-reflection. Which means that so many āradical moviesā are actually reactionary. There is no way forward unless people actually reflect on the limitations of their own self-righteousness and the possible dangers it has for society. [...]
Ari Aster: Thereās a feedback loop of nostalgia. Not just nostalgia and trauma. Weāre always looking back into the past to see why we are here right now. āOh, itās because this happened to me.ā As opposed to ā and this is what youāve been talking about for ever ā where is the new idea? Where is our vision of the future? Because nobody believes in the future any more. I donāt believe in the future, and Iām desperately looking for it.
Adam Curtis: Youāre right about trauma. Increasingly over the last four or five years, people have retreated into themselves and are blaming their own past. Theyāre not only playing back the music or films of the past, theyāre playing back their own past and finding in those fragments of their memory the reasons why they are feeling bad, anxious, uncertain, afraid and lonely ā and itās given the term trauma. Trauma is a very specific, real and frightening for those who experience it. But recently itās been widened to such an extent that you are blaming yourself all the time through your own reworking of the past. Rather like AI goes back and reworks the past and plays it back to you. Now youāre doing that to yourself
From "āNobody believes in the future any moreā: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare" by Adam Curtis and Ari Aster, with Paul MacInnes, from the Guardian, published on 8 August 2025.
CIRQUE DU SO WHAT?
More like a so-so Grand Guignol. But no one knows what that is, so I pun on Cirque du Soleil. Though those glitzy acrobatic spectaculars are from a Canadian company, so I doubt they will perform anywhere near hereāfor a couple of years anyway. You donāt have to look Grand Guignol up: it was originally politically-charged puppet plays, but became a term for any over-the-top theatre du sex andā¦
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"A lie is told because the person telling it thinks there is a chance that someone will believe it. We might hope that the listener has enough common sense not to believe it, but in an age of partisan manipulation and fragmentation of our information sources, keyed to play on our motivated reasoning, we are no longer entitled to that assumption. The point of challenging a lie is not to convince the liar, who is likely too far gone in his or her dark purpose to be rehabilitated. But because every lie has an audience, there may still be time to do some good for others. If we do not confront the liar, will those who have not yet moved from ignorance to "willful ignorance" just slip further down the rabbit hole toward full-blown denialism, where they may not even listen to facts or reason anymore? Without a 'counter-narrative' from us, will they have any reason to doubt what the liar is saying? At the very least, it is important to at leastĀ witnessĀ a lie and call it out for what it is. In an era of post-truth, we must challenge each and every attempt to obfuscate a factual matter and challenge falsehoods before they are allowed to fester."
-- Post-Truth by Lee McIntire
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