#thebritish — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thebritish, aggregated by home.social.
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Frankie Boyle:
> We live in a country where posting “Let’s riot or something bruv!” on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals. Of course, it’s never phrased as a plea to kill shepherds in pursuit of our geopolitical interests.
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> #PopeFrancis as.. influential voice. “Dealing with the planetary crisis is a matter of unlearning... #LaudatoSi [..2015 encyclical on ecology] is about the collapse of a.. world-view.” #TheBritish.. are especially ill-suited to “unlearning”. “ #BritishPeople were educated for generations to think that their technological interventions were the best. To recognise that these created climate change requires an unlearning of so much that is foundational to their identity.” https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/amitav-ghosh-climate-change-war
