That word... lasterweek.
At least she was a bit of a grown up, reminded me...
" I went on an Extinction Rebellion 'action' last week.."
Unfortunately one cannot get anything really profound into modern 'media'...
Sorrentinish profundity.
As in, in Youth, when Keitel jumps from their balcony, which isn't really profound..... nor is it profound when ' Miss World' bares her jugs, and all and two old men bare teenage smiles...
This is always where European culture breaks down... nothing is perfect. In fact perhaps, curiously, Captain Fantastic is the actual really profound commentary. An anti hamster wheel, documentary, of how to better Be.. in simple simplicity.
And also raise great kids, actually thinking for themselves.
None of my business, i did my bit...
But the words, after showing off with non-word ' "actions" ... I have zero interest in a county or in fact whole peninsula, a holiday camp.. as for a decade plus,in the last region gradually becoming theme park, the real theme park became the incommer tie dye, Extinction Rebells... and their performative ... nothing.
No actual interest in the rivers Wye or Arrow or Lugg.... they would be inyetested in, only to suss out cheap holiday camp oppourtunities, in the nearby woods... if they had a
"connection"
called Camilla or Rupert who had inherited a chunk ... they could use cheap or free
Simple
patronage
by and of ' aristocracy' ... mates rates, they never woulf speak of the cost.
Just their stupid mermaid-on-wye smileiness... though the Arrow, my last decade landloping grounds, cheaper bankside ops...
No " community", in fact the opposite: keep my little quiet acre other-people-free.. ...
But it was the official, unofficial 'environmental' community... as they became performative tearful 'tree sisters' or whatever gimick next...
" Oh yes i go to [ the city, where the livestream signal is more robust ] and do...
' actions'....." arent i a little heroine, the body language..
And then next week our little heroine ( it always was) ... was unwell, the labelitis had returned... so she had to hide away in the quiet of her bedroom days on end....
( no continuity ... THE true eco crime, cos continuity required to DO anything real... cos that takes time)
at least she ... lasterweek, alone did recognise, i was quite shocked:
" hmm... my XR mates... they fail.... its just playing at it.... unless they take part in.. politics, becoming councillors and even MPs... its only childsplay...."
" wow.... i have never heard a sane one ... you spread that boring dull word...i have been for 10 years... but failed... sadly we only have the vote... but the mistake my generation would make maybe 25 or more years
ago, me especially.... is the notion that if you join in officially-politically it must be for life, or decades.. nope! it is perfectly ok to have a spurt into the public life, a few years.... ideally 3 or 4, almost minimum.. .. as long as one is open about limited time ... british politicos, this dreadful Tory boy masochism, inherited from dad mentally massacred not having a dad, but a nanny instead.... they must self "martyr"-sacrafice at the grindstone of presenteeism and overwork...
...nope... a few really good years in taking part ... is better than nothing, and enough if you can ... but you must plan and be open about continuity...passing batons etc.... politics is always a 'community' affair.... a few in your kitchen, cabinets must continue in other kitchens if you pull back... and dont take it too seriously, its just endless 'twas ever thus.... need to hold greedy excess back in proportion... blahh blahh "
THE END
but how to find some profound thing, or phrase, to pimp... ?
profound...
keeping it simple
but profound.
That was 20 years of my life.
I really do need to stop, stay stopped, and write up better some of that past.
Or does no one respond to 'profound' any more? has shit tv and bad films, wrung that out of what seemed to work for milennia ...
Or is it the newwords ? just cos they started to have workshops [ sic], on how to have successful eco "warrior"
" actions" ... doesnt mean they actually achieved any real change...
I think culture.. profound, good culture, does that? or maybe I am a fool
( what i DO know, is i joined - only time ever, in later 2020 time to spare, https://mubi.com/en/gb/go
Mubi for some years, said to be the in place for arthouse, the in people joined... and i have never known such an artless miserable unprofound, load of dull self pitying, rubbish.. dressed up as "art".... and i have sat through plenty of good avant garde experimental cinema in the 80s, 90s especially..... NOTHING made me even curious about humanity in sad, dull, Mubi ... )
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