Magnificat
Sep. 26th, 2018 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI skim the news for markers of change. The news is mostly frightful- and mostly skewed that way, deliberately so. Frightfulness sells- and, by stirring up fear and anger- serves the interests of the powerful (including the people who own the news media.) But embedded in the overall frightfulness are little nuggets of something else.
I mostly skip over what politicians are saying and doing because they're invested in keeping the world in lock-down- and rarely mean what they say. What I'm looking for are new things, things of a kind that haven't happened before, new inventions, new thought, creativity- evidence that the world is becoming kinder, more peaceable, more just- something I believe to be the case in spite of all propaganda to the contrary.
Four nuggets from this morning's news: (1) Trump getting laughed at in the UN, (2) Bill Cosby being sent to jail, (3) Monsanto getting told by a court that one of its filthy herbicides causes cancer and it needs to pay reparations, (4) the publication of a report that reveals the extent of clerical child abuse in the Catholic Church in Germany- all instances of entrenched power being challenged and defeated.
I mostly skip over what politicians are saying and doing because they're invested in keeping the world in lock-down- and rarely mean what they say. What I'm looking for are new things, things of a kind that haven't happened before, new inventions, new thought, creativity- evidence that the world is becoming kinder, more peaceable, more just- something I believe to be the case in spite of all propaganda to the contrary.
Four nuggets from this morning's news: (1) Trump getting laughed at in the UN, (2) Bill Cosby being sent to jail, (3) Monsanto getting told by a court that one of its filthy herbicides causes cancer and it needs to pay reparations, (4) the publication of a report that reveals the extent of clerical child abuse in the Catholic Church in Germany- all instances of entrenched power being challenged and defeated.
