1/. Two hundred years ago, a slab of Purbeck stone was set deep into a hillside overlooking London
Called the Stone of Free Speech, it is a place where people have gathered whenever their rights were under threat
It is a reminder from history
Is it time to gather there again?
Called the Stone of Free Speech, it is a place where people have gathered whenever their rights were under threat
It is a reminder from history
Is it time to gather there again?
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1347611064729546752
2/. “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed.” (Hannah Arendt)
Self-censorship occurs when a journalist or editor makes a decision motivated by fear of the consequences.
Self-censorship occurs when a journalist or editor makes a decision motivated by fear of the consequences.
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1389282094900289540
3/. “Farewell to the arts, to eloquence.” (Mary Shelley)
We naturally at a time of pandemic turn to science for solutions, but art, literature & history can not only help us make sense of our current world & our responses to it, but can also help uncover truths & offer warnings.
We naturally at a time of pandemic turn to science for solutions, but art, literature & history can not only help us make sense of our current world & our responses to it, but can also help uncover truths & offer warnings.
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1244738865669312515
4/. “Our civilization has chosen machinery, medicine & happiness. That's why I have to keep these books locked up in the safe"
In Brave New World, literature is locked away
Huxley was using an imagined future to write about the present but he was was also sending us a message
In Brave New World, literature is locked away
Huxley was using an imagined future to write about the present but he was was also sending us a message
5/. Camus, writes allegorically in 1947:
“The plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good: it can lie dormant for years…& perhaps the day will come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it will rouse up its rats again & send them forth to die in a happy city.”
“The plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good: it can lie dormant for years…& perhaps the day will come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it will rouse up its rats again & send them forth to die in a happy city.”
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