Maybe we need some grindhouse-style revenge flicks where the victims of unfettered cryptofascism rise up and skin a bunch of billionaires and politicians alive. I'm just sayin'.

Ech. Maybe. But in the end I believe in restorative justice, truth & reconciliation, and so on. I think violent punishment initialises the horror engine for the next round. Maybe I’m wrong, but it’s not like we haven’t tried the bloody version before :(

Damn, would I like to share that belief--honestly I would. But Popper's paradox rules the day and the grifters running things bargain only in bad faith. John Brown seems pretty level-headed in this milieu. Jaysus, how did I get so cynical?

Songs of experience… But my position isn’t derived from optimism - I don’t think. I just believe that the new track we need has to be more than simply toppling a bunch of bastards and putting new bastards in their jobs (under new job titles).

From your lips to the gods ears my friend. I'm angry enough at The Bastards to contemplate a toppling, but not naive enough to think it wouldn't be utterly horrorshow.

I’ve no interest in going through the hell of radical societal upheaval - if we can even get there - only to deal with Red Tsars instead of White ones. We need better and more.

There was this (maybe a bit trashy but deeply powerful) book called Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi which I read a billion years ago and was basically just, “pissed off woman beats the crap out of everyone who had fucked her over” and I’m starting to think these are the kinds of stories we need now.

Less 1984 and more John Wick with fascists instead of gangsters.

Probably a good idea: dystopian sci-fi is being put out of business by current events

Back to work. No time. Better to put it in the book anyway. Ffs.

Sound advice!