Why talking to yourself is a good idea and how shouting into the void helps
John Barrett - Between us, 2020, spray paint, acrylic This is the first and hopefully, one of the few times, when I'll just write a post off the top of my head. I'm not going to set any links to supporting documents, no footnotes, no appendices or further reading. Someone close to me opined that there's all this writing about the current state of affairs, that people are angry and protesting but it's not doing any good. That we know all this stuff and still the Republicans with their Stooge-in-Chief are wreaking havoc on the country and the world. But that none of the outrage matters. I took issue with that assessment. I still do. Look, no one reads this blog, a few people engage with me on FB but for the most part, I prefer using the blog as a way of making sense of the issues around us. It's my sandbox that I leave up in case people want to discuss, teach me a few things, maybe even talk among themselves. To be sure, to be redundant, no one reads the blog, so s...