#281: Inkwell Co-Host (jonl) Tue 16 Jan 24 09:33
Published: January 16, 2024 09:33
Thanks, folks. I hope we made some sense of the senseless. [Read entire topic]
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#280: Betsy Schwartz (betsys) Tue 16 Jan 24 09:26
Published: January 16, 2024 09:26
Yes thank you. The world has many painful details. Someone elsewhere on the WELL posted this quote by James Baldwin: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." [Read entire topic]
#279: Renshin Bunce (renshin) Tue 16 Jan 24 09:23
Published: January 16, 2024 09:23
More thanks from here. Someone way up thread said they found this year's conversation boring, I thoroughly disagree, thought both Jonl and Bruces's comments useful in our collective effort to figure out how to navigate through these pretty terrible times …
#278: J Matisse Enzer (matisse) Tue 16 Jan 24 09:18
Published: January 16, 2024 09:18
Thank you Jon for steadfastly organizing this year after year. [Read entire topic]
#277: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Mon 15 Jan 24 14:15
Published: January 15, 2024 14:15
We're ready to wrap up this year's State of the World conversation. Hope we have a world to talk about this time next year. Thanks to Bruce and all the other folks who showed up this year. "What is reality? An icicle forming in fire." ~ Zen Master Eihei…
#276: Shebar Windstone (jonl) Mon 15 Jan 24 12:31
Published: January 15, 2024 12:31
Via email from Shebar WindstoneThank you, Bruce, for your indefatigable efforts to share your geo-historic adventures/rambles & to broaden our cultural horizons!Perhaps your Medium piece about Calder's life and work (discussed in <253-258>) might best be…
#275: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Mon 15 Jan 24 06:42
Published: January 15, 2024 06:42
I never expect to find enlightenment in these annual conversations, but they do stimulate my thinking and (often) my feeling. This one, combined with a personal slight IRL, had the effect of throwing me into a deep funk. Friends stepped up to help me…
#273: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Mon 15 Jan 24 00:52
Published: January 15, 2024 00:52
Well, it's been quite a glum State of the World for us, but it was honest in its glumness, which contents me. In retrospect these becalmed, enshittified years will be seen as the Good Old Days of the twenty-first century, a touchingly archaic time when…
#274: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Mon 15 Jan 24 00:52
Published: January 15, 2024 00:52
It's like the poet Czeslaw Milosz wrote, when he escaped his rather crappy existence under Communist domination in the Warsaw Pact, and he married a comely Californian woman who had a nice garden. Eventually she died, and he went back to Poland as a…