Ha ha. Great article and I learned a new word: “woke-washing.” More than anything, that compound word explains why corporations are so dedicated to wokedom. Just my 2 cents.
J. Bryant.
Gardener, fisherman, activist.
J – I am a fisherman too, I do a small bit of commercial fishing but the money is so low mostly I stopped that, mostly am just on the water almost every day catching some for the people I care for (most of them do not eat red meat) and friends and acquaintances, and myself and dogs, and mostly to remain sane as I am an outdoors-man, and being on the water keeps me together, and to get the fish as we eat it 4-5 days a week, but mostly to be on the water really – I could not do without being on the water, it is such a huge part of me….
I am just getting the fall garden in – it is dug, the greens planted, turnips, last beans, mulched – later the winter stuff goes in. The grapes are ripening, figs and pears gone, I do jams and marmalade – I need to have nature about, and I have pets and poultry…..
Glad to hear someone else fishes and gardens…..Pity they do not have a chat place here to talk of these things….
Activist too
And it seems the publishing industry is 75% women. I wonder if that has any thing to do with how insanely, destructively, Left it is? Or are the modern males total XXXXXXX too?
Ian Barton
2 years ago
Many of these activist books might be more accurately described as progressives “coffee table ballast” rather than “intellectual ballast”.
They will if your HR department makes you buy them and pretend to read them.
Jim Richards
2 years ago
We live in a more caring age? Dubious. We live in an age where pretending to care matters more but try asking a volunteer co-ordinator if they are being overwhelmed by demands to come and help
Edward Jones
2 years ago
“colossal wally”.
Dan Croitoru
2 years ago
These activists all go the way of China. Vulgar atheism, disdain for family, solidarity, blind pursue of materialistic accumulation only to end up dying in an expensive SUV in a flooded tunnel. It is the capitalism of the concentration camps.
Martin Smith
2 years ago
“Resistance to capitalism has become just another way of selling things.” A splendid summary. As time marches on the once inevitabile revolution has become the evolutionary moment of capitalism. Contrary to the expectations of the experts capital has fed on, rather than collapsed under, the weight of its ‘contradictions.’ Perhaps less rather than more ‘activism’ is the answer.
Last edited 2 years ago by Martin Smith
Alan Hawkes
2 years ago
Resistance to capitalism has become just another way of practising capitalism: capitalism with added hypocrisy.
Christian Moon
2 years ago
Touching lack of cynicism about St Marcus and his PR team, there. Really quite affecting.
Change activist to narcissist.
Ha ha. Great article and I learned a new word: “woke-washing.” More than anything, that compound word explains why corporations are so dedicated to wokedom.
Just my 2 cents.
J. Bryant.
Gardener, fisherman, activist.
J – I am a fisherman too, I do a small bit of commercial fishing but the money is so low mostly I stopped that, mostly am just on the water almost every day catching some for the people I care for (most of them do not eat red meat) and friends and acquaintances, and myself and dogs, and mostly to remain sane as I am an outdoors-man, and being on the water keeps me together, and to get the fish as we eat it 4-5 days a week, but mostly to be on the water really – I could not do without being on the water, it is such a huge part of me….
I am just getting the fall garden in – it is dug, the greens planted, turnips, last beans, mulched – later the winter stuff goes in. The grapes are ripening, figs and pears gone, I do jams and marmalade – I need to have nature about, and I have pets and poultry…..
Glad to hear someone else fishes and gardens…..Pity they do not have a chat place here to talk of these things….
Activist too
And it seems the publishing industry is 75% women. I wonder if that has any thing to do with how insanely, destructively, Left it is? Or are the modern males total XXXXXXX too?
Many of these activist books might be more accurately described as progressives “coffee table ballast” rather than “intellectual ballast”.
Or perhaps ‘ zoom virtue displays’ in the bookcase behind the speaker.
Narcissists used to want to seem spiritual rather than shouty and progressive. Passivists rather than activists .
I think a better description of activist books is “racist filth”.
Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me that you don’t have sell that many books to be a “best seller” these days.
Presumably these idiots are snapping up each other’s books. I’m not persuaded that the general public buys them.
They will if your HR department makes you buy them and pretend to read them.
We live in a more caring age? Dubious. We live in an age where pretending to care matters more but try asking a volunteer co-ordinator if they are being overwhelmed by demands to come and help
“colossal wally”.
These activists all go the way of China. Vulgar atheism, disdain for family, solidarity, blind pursue of materialistic accumulation only to end up dying in an expensive SUV in a flooded tunnel. It is the capitalism of the concentration camps.
“Resistance to capitalism has become just another way of selling things.” A splendid summary. As time marches on the once inevitabile revolution has become the evolutionary moment of capitalism. Contrary to the expectations of the experts capital has fed on, rather than collapsed under, the weight of its ‘contradictions.’ Perhaps less rather than more ‘activism’ is the answer.
Resistance to capitalism has become just another way of practising capitalism: capitalism with added hypocrisy.
Touching lack of cynicism about St Marcus and his PR team, there. Really quite affecting.
Maybe Marcus wants to become a global brand like David Beckham.
I am here to express my stylistic preference for the serial comma.