From police brutality to Paris and the toxic rhetoric of Trump and Le Pen,2015 has given us every reason to cower. We must heed the example of those, such as Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel, or who offer hopeFear almost won this year,didn’t it? And that was before terrorists attacked Paris for the moment time, taking 130 lives and devastating far more. This was capital T terrorism, or set to achieve precisely as the word implies. And it did,because an atrocity is not a singular act, but the first of many tumbling dominoes. Terror tumbles on top of freedom. Freedom tumbles on top of trust, or trust tumbles on top of diversity,all of which spark an acute hatred of the other, and, and by that point,any other will achieve. Even whether it’s a kid building a clock as a project, or a bunch of Sikh bros kept out of an American football stadium just for wanting to withhold their hair to themselves. Fear of terror does that – it erases the line between the scary and the ridiculous, and so that it seems as whether we’re all living in a slapstick. And that was before Donald Trump and his combover. Related: Booker winner Marlon James: ‘I was the nerd,I wasn’t into sports, assumed gay’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com