a splendid piece of political activist writing. Fascism is lurking in the wings...and if ordinary people are seduced into emulating the behaviours of those who play with power and politics...if they accept the growth of private (purchased) power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself, then it will arrive looking and talking like a saviour while all the time wanting more and more and more and taking it from you and me.
Hope lies in the fact that we are many and they are few - hope lies in factual accuracy and exposing the lie(s)...hope lies in standing together and looking after each other; it does not lie on erasing "the other" nor in those who seduce you with lies.
I’m up for the fight. As a writer who has just lost a contract to AI to write a travel guide to Scotland, it’s either that or retain to be a masseur. But something tells me AI content is the CD Rom of the future, and will be seen as the soulless junk it is- not before so much talent and potential has been sacrificed at the altar of corporate greed and shorttermism.
Why can't we learn from history? And so much of our inconvenient history is erased. I studied history at Uni. but I was in my fifties before I heard of Andrew Hardie and John Baird. Thank you for bearing witness.
Wow! Stunned by your writing... the journey you take us on... the parallels... the metaphors... thankyou. Was in Falkirk recently... wish I'd walked the tunnel now. My grandad told me when he was young he and his friends used to 'leg' the barges through one of the canal tunnels in Burnley where the horses couldn't get in.
Another fine piece of research, reflections and sharing through writing it down -- something that the world of AI cannot yet take from us -- the ability to read our minds!😉 🇨🇦 🍁
I’m reminded of one other role no Grok can (yet) replace, that of the witness. It is a privilege to be in a place to see things and to tell people what we have seen. Whether in the quietude of a canal tunnel, or the mayhem of a labor uprising, to report what one has perceived with one’s five senses is necessary to justice. God bless your call, Karine, and your response to it.
What a wonderful piece of writing to read on a Monday morning. Here on the Cumbrian coast, not too far from the border with Scotland, it's a beautiful bright morning, in stark contrast to the darkness pervading the world at present.
As a Methodist preacher I spoke yesterday on the story of Dives and Lazarus (otherwise the rich man and Lazarus) drawing on the folk song of the same name. How little things have changed.
I hope it's a long time before preachers and tellers of the truth are replaced by AI!
a splendid piece of political activist writing. Fascism is lurking in the wings...and if ordinary people are seduced into emulating the behaviours of those who play with power and politics...if they accept the growth of private (purchased) power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself, then it will arrive looking and talking like a saviour while all the time wanting more and more and more and taking it from you and me.
Hope lies in the fact that we are many and they are few - hope lies in factual accuracy and exposing the lie(s)...hope lies in standing together and looking after each other; it does not lie on erasing "the other" nor in those who seduce you with lies.
I’m up for the fight. As a writer who has just lost a contract to AI to write a travel guide to Scotland, it’s either that or retain to be a masseur. But something tells me AI content is the CD Rom of the future, and will be seen as the soulless junk it is- not before so much talent and potential has been sacrificed at the altar of corporate greed and shorttermism.
A Ukrainian friend and I sang the whole length of that tunnel as we paddled a K2 through. The singing together got us through the dark.
Thank you for shining a light on the relevance of history and the trials of today, Karine.
Why can't we learn from history? And so much of our inconvenient history is erased. I studied history at Uni. but I was in my fifties before I heard of Andrew Hardie and John Baird. Thank you for bearing witness.
Wow! Stunned by your writing... the journey you take us on... the parallels... the metaphors... thankyou. Was in Falkirk recently... wish I'd walked the tunnel now. My grandad told me when he was young he and his friends used to 'leg' the barges through one of the canal tunnels in Burnley where the horses couldn't get in.
Another fine piece of research, reflections and sharing through writing it down -- something that the world of AI cannot yet take from us -- the ability to read our minds!😉 🇨🇦 🍁
Thank you for this, Karine. Thoughtful and well said, and on point for political and social situations, not in Scotland and the UK alone.
Much of interest! I must stop off at the Falkirk Wheel on the road to Orkney.
You’d be going a guy funny route if you go that way!
I en route between west Yorks and Scrabster - I’ve meant to stop a few times.
I’m reminded of one other role no Grok can (yet) replace, that of the witness. It is a privilege to be in a place to see things and to tell people what we have seen. Whether in the quietude of a canal tunnel, or the mayhem of a labor uprising, to report what one has perceived with one’s five senses is necessary to justice. God bless your call, Karine, and your response to it.
What a wonderful piece of writing to read on a Monday morning. Here on the Cumbrian coast, not too far from the border with Scotland, it's a beautiful bright morning, in stark contrast to the darkness pervading the world at present.
As a Methodist preacher I spoke yesterday on the story of Dives and Lazarus (otherwise the rich man and Lazarus) drawing on the folk song of the same name. How little things have changed.
I hope it's a long time before preachers and tellers of the truth are replaced by AI!