The "I've got mine"attitude of many in our country will go down in history As a total precipitant of our current situation and the coming/ now "getting underway" downfall of America. This is perhaps worldwide, but I only feel qualified to call what I see. How does leaving any human behind benefit us as a society? Many of these humans will be children, born into situations that are no fault of their own. But screw them! Must be in the DNA, huh?!? Certainly not the fault of flawed systems with built in biases. If only our default settings would have been "set" on empathy and education rather than "look at me! I'm a bigly important idiot"....Love the commentary on the publishing jungle. This IS the basis of our society since Gutenberg made widespread communication/ sharing of ideas possible. How much different would our world have been if Gutenberg would have been African, Asian or anything besides gatekeeping European/ Western world aligned?
You are spot-on, Walter! We have right as human beings and citizens of this country, to have totally accurate information conveyed to us, and not what some small pod of elites thinks we should hear/see. We have an obligation to not only disrupt the latter, but to highlight it as well. That's why we enjoy your communications so much! Thank you!
Though I'm not centuries old to have observed this all firsthand, the proliferation of "me first" thinking truly took off with Ray-gun, the go-go eighties and the normalization of yuppie aspirations. It's gotten worse ever since.
Talented indie musicians end up selling their stuff out of car trunks, for the word of mouth to pick up and grow their fanbase. We small writers and our readers probably need to do the same, elevate our fellows, and crosspollinate interest at ground level to make our own ecosystem. Like everything else establishment nowadays, we're it and no one's coming to help us.
TRUTH. I chose to pursue an advanced degree in TESOL over Publishing because I detest the “relic of white supremacy” that the industry is even though I loved doing publication work.
The "I've got mine"attitude of many in our country will go down in history As a total precipitant of our current situation and the coming/ now "getting underway" downfall of America. This is perhaps worldwide, but I only feel qualified to call what I see. How does leaving any human behind benefit us as a society? Many of these humans will be children, born into situations that are no fault of their own. But screw them! Must be in the DNA, huh?!? Certainly not the fault of flawed systems with built in biases. If only our default settings would have been "set" on empathy and education rather than "look at me! I'm a bigly important idiot"....Love the commentary on the publishing jungle. This IS the basis of our society since Gutenberg made widespread communication/ sharing of ideas possible. How much different would our world have been if Gutenberg would have been African, Asian or anything besides gatekeeping European/ Western world aligned?
You are spot-on, Walter! We have right as human beings and citizens of this country, to have totally accurate information conveyed to us, and not what some small pod of elites thinks we should hear/see. We have an obligation to not only disrupt the latter, but to highlight it as well. That's why we enjoy your communications so much! Thank you!
Though I'm not centuries old to have observed this all firsthand, the proliferation of "me first" thinking truly took off with Ray-gun, the go-go eighties and the normalization of yuppie aspirations. It's gotten worse ever since.
Talented indie musicians end up selling their stuff out of car trunks, for the word of mouth to pick up and grow their fanbase. We small writers and our readers probably need to do the same, elevate our fellows, and crosspollinate interest at ground level to make our own ecosystem. Like everything else establishment nowadays, we're it and no one's coming to help us.
TRUTH. I chose to pursue an advanced degree in TESOL over Publishing because I detest the “relic of white supremacy” that the industry is even though I loved doing publication work.
Right, again.