thank you for always being able to capture what i no longer feel capable of expressing; what i see but have become mute to say in the face of so much loss. i don't recognize people i have known all my life. i can no longer have any real discussions of import about what is happening they refuse to see: people who i have respected are not there... the years of this grief are wearing me down. and then i read your work and feel some moment of relief.
Having not watched telly for quite a few years now, apart from some series on DVD, I decided to have a look at Mr Bates vs the Post Office last week. I found my response really interesting. On the one side an older part of me was excited to see this exposé of horrendous wrongdoing and suffering. But a newer part was cynical: what was ITV really trying to make me think? I was definitely meant to identify with the doughty innocent charming sub postmasters and feel revulsion for the women running the Post Office. I'm on the side of the good little people and just look at those baddies over there! My conclusion is that Vennells, evidently guilty, is nevertheless being handed to us as a scapegoat for the much deeper forces at play. I wouldn't have seen that before 2020.
thank you for always being able to capture what i no longer feel capable of expressing; what i see but have become mute to say in the face of so much loss. i don't recognize people i have known all my life. i can no longer have any real discussions of import about what is happening they refuse to see: people who i have respected are not there... the years of this grief are wearing me down. and then i read your work and feel some moment of relief.
"What did it say about the television channel as a whole that it allowed its airtime to be used to peddle this deceit?"
It says that in a society run by criminal cartels the huckster lumpenproletariat are highly rewarded.
Having not watched telly for quite a few years now, apart from some series on DVD, I decided to have a look at Mr Bates vs the Post Office last week. I found my response really interesting. On the one side an older part of me was excited to see this exposé of horrendous wrongdoing and suffering. But a newer part was cynical: what was ITV really trying to make me think? I was definitely meant to identify with the doughty innocent charming sub postmasters and feel revulsion for the women running the Post Office. I'm on the side of the good little people and just look at those baddies over there! My conclusion is that Vennells, evidently guilty, is nevertheless being handed to us as a scapegoat for the much deeper forces at play. I wouldn't have seen that before 2020.
Well said!
Here's one covering similar ground you might appreciate ... https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/targets
Thanks. Excellent!
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