#GE2019 [A cathartic thread]

Gramsci wrote that "the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." He described perfectly the current political zeitgeist. What we are seeing across the Western world today are political earthquakes at the epicentre of which is the 'digital revolution'. The dawn of the internet, and latterly social media, has empowered people all across the world to connect and organise:

▪️@markcurtis30: “My view, looking at declassified files and evidence of UK foreign policy going back 70 years, is that Britain is a serial violator of human rights, a systematic supporter of repressive regimes. This has largely been kept from the British public by the media.” ▪️@markcurtis30: “It is a British war in #Yemen. The British are supplying the weapons, the aircraft, training the pilots, storing and issuing the weapons, and maintaining the Saudi warplanes. We have a real problem in the way that the media is failing to hold leaders to account”

📚 | Thoroughly recommend James Cameron’s 1967 book ‘Point of Departure’, a masterful and often self-deprecating memoir featuring accounts from his two decades as a foreign correspondent. Interestingly, many of Cameron’s observations are as relevant today as they were in 1967. ⭕ "Two world wars within my lifetime, and a multiplicity of lesser ones, have anaesthetised our moral perceptions, and somehow produced the illusion that there can be a justification for killing millions in places like Dresden, Stalingrad, Hiroshima, and a hundred places more.”