I listened fleetingly to Lucy Powell interviewed on #r4today and as I was drowned by her BS I found myself reflecting on what it was like for me to listen to Labour MPs the last time they were in power and before they took us to war in Iraq.
Back then, I was in my mid to late 30s and naive, and often enthused by what I heard.
I’ve learned a lot since then. But political parties don’t. They’re mostly stuck in time. And then we’re invited to invest in them for change 🤷♂️
…Since the Millennium we’ve had/have several major wars, we’ve had the acceleration of crash-addled financialisation, the advent of smart phones, social media, tight oil, cloud computing, pandemics, and now ‘AI’.
And we’ve chucked close to a trillion tonnes of GHGs into the air and denuded more landscapes in the race for wood and coal and gas and oil and metals.
We haven’t changed where we’re going. We’re just going there faster
…It’ll be gravelly at best, if we’re very lucky https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111385481327253511
