Small And Local
Apr. 29th, 2024 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo A Friend gave us a talk on Nicaragua.
Nicaragua has had one godawful government after another- going back to the Conqistadors. The current government- run by Daniel Ortega's wife (Ortega himself is a sick man and essentially out of the picture)- has shut down the press, gaoled political opponents, exiled the lefty Catholic priests and let in the Chinese and the US Evangelicals. Our friend was working on a progressive project which survives by staying small, staying local and keeping its head down....
Incidentally, I think staying small and local is the way of the future- the way to stay hopeful, sane and creative. Keeping one's head down maybe not so much, though inceasingly it seems to be the way of things- even in so-called liberal democracies like the UK as weak and fearful governments inflate themselves and inflate themselves and take up more and more space....
Nicaragua has had one godawful government after another- going back to the Conqistadors. The current government- run by Daniel Ortega's wife (Ortega himself is a sick man and essentially out of the picture)- has shut down the press, gaoled political opponents, exiled the lefty Catholic priests and let in the Chinese and the US Evangelicals. Our friend was working on a progressive project which survives by staying small, staying local and keeping its head down....
Incidentally, I think staying small and local is the way of the future- the way to stay hopeful, sane and creative. Keeping one's head down maybe not so much, though inceasingly it seems to be the way of things- even in so-called liberal democracies like the UK as weak and fearful governments inflate themselves and inflate themselves and take up more and more space....
