Brian Eno: The feeling that things are inevitably going to get worse (2009)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jan/02/brian-eno-edge-question-future

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abullinan•5mo ago

We are clearly seeing this happen in real time. The fear started in right wing circles as civil rights expanded and now they are in control and acting like a “lifeboat in hostile waters” yet their policies aim to hurt everyone not just the minorities people like Steven Miller openly and hatefully despise.

Rakshith•5mo ago

Sometimes people lose a track of reality and conservatives have always been those people to remind them. What can be achieved and what needs to happen are directly proportional to each other.

chownie•5mo ago

On the other hand, when you want to get some plan funded, something which will help real individual people, it is going to be conservatives first in line to block such a thing from coming to fruition. Public libraries are an example of something I think could not come into being today for this reason.

DavidVoid•5mo ago

Despite being written in 2009, it certainly still feels relevant.

And thank you for posting this, because it made me think of Sir Noël Coward's banger song "There are bad times just around the corner" (1952) [1], which I hadn't listened to in years.

  There are bad times just around the corner  
  There are dark clouds hurtling through the sky  
  And it's no good whining  
  About a silver lining  
  For we know from experience that they won't roll by

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khEmMfMVsv4

adt•5mo ago

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