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Day 7+

…the difficulty of taking on Chomsky’s warnings about the threat to democracy is that it has already been given away because of the threat posed to it by authoritarian takeover, most latterly shown to insist in populism. …the social order henceforth and the market are coincident. No coherent political
Simon Taylor 01 Apr 2020

Day 6 & 7

Mike sent me this from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Thanks! So… …at least it’s… AIDS / HIV is said to have claimed 25 – 35 million victims since 1981 no recent pandemic compares, except the Spanish flu the giant remains the bubonic plague but there’s something quick, nasty and
Simon Taylor 01 Apr 2020

Day 5

Raymond Ruyer’s book Neofinalism begins, after the death of God the question is not What is true? but What makes sense? The question is not whether this or that truly exists but whether its existence makes sense. Its existence, Ruyer is quick to point out, implies ours: does yours
Simon Taylor 30 Mar 2020

Day 4

It’s a beautiful evening. The tui are sending out their last and simplest songs of the day, just a few notes. The bellbirds in the Marlborough Sounds–that are not Sounds, neither are the fiords of Fiordland fiords–at their most improvisatory outdo tui, and are often mistaken for
Simon Taylor 29 Mar 2020

day 3

hope for change from this, so we have sort of drifted into another bubble and we have all but we have not done it collectively desperation is it? leading many to hope from here we cannot go back there how to be certain? vamos lentos por que vamos lejos or
Simon Taylor 28 Mar 2020

Days 1 – 2 LOCKDOWN & NATIONAL EMERGENCY

Did they act in wartime, like, you know, it was just a good idea? Like it was a good idea to stop people congregating by shutting down things like public communication (wifi) services? (Although loose lips sink ships.) Like, it was a good idea just to stay in your bubble?
Simon Taylor 27 Mar 2020

…normal transmission will resume after us…

Simon Taylor 25 Mar 2020

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