The stereotype of these events is that they’re packed cheek to jowl with rich, out of touch celebrities hectoring the rest of us about politics and touting their own enlightenment...but like many institutions comprising comfortable, wealthy people, the ceremony has tended to play it safe in practice.
Zack Budryk returns to write about Amy Madigan, One Battle After Another and the politics, silent and otherwise, of last night's Oscars ceremony. You may also enjoy this piece from 2024 by Corey Atad on a similar subject concerning Jonathan Glazer's win for The Zone of Interest. Look what we
You have to imagine the last guy he ever drank margaritas at the mall with was like what hell Dave? Whole time I thought we were having a few laughs there. Talked mostly about the game. I didn’t know you were thinking all that.
Today Keith Plocek, who teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, writes about Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, solipsism, his students using "AI", and the permission structure it gives us to doubt and devalue one another's humanity.
https://www.welcometohellworld.com/sentences-that-no-one-wrote/
Today Keith Plocek, who teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, writes about Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, solipsism, and the permission structure "AI" gives us to doubt and devalue one another's humanity. This piece will be sent out in the next edition of the newsletter. You'll need to
Fascists thrive when a populace feels isolated from each other, when the show of guns, boots, and state-backed force presents as invincible. But we are not isolated—true solidarity existed here well before they arrived, and it has only blossomed in response to their cruelty. It’s proven so durable that the fascists can hardly believe it’s real and not paid for. In fact, they systemically can’t believe that it’s real, because if it is, they know they are destined to fail.
“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops."
https://www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-zone-of-interest/
I maintain a modicum of order. The bottles are placed in the bin and the bin is taken outside to the larger bin and the larger bin is wheeled out to the curb to await its deliverance. One of another series of lies we tell ourselves.
“We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," Erik Hane writes from Minneapolis.
https://www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-other-peoples-children/
by Erik Hane This morning I was standing next to some tropical fish when I looked down at my phone to the messages. ICE had shot someone on a Minneapolis street, again, this time next to the donut place I often take my kids. We were at the zoo because
“We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," Erik Hane writes from Minneapolis.
https://www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-other-peoples-children/
by Erik Hane This morning I was standing next to some tropical fish when I looked down at my phone to the messages. ICE had shot someone on a Minneapolis street, again, this time next to the donut place I often take my kids. We were at the zoo because
