rosscarroll.bsky.social
Political theorist at Dublin City University. Author of Edmund Burke (Polity, 2024) and Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton UP, 2021). Increasingly interested in abolition/emancipation and multigenerational democracy.
👤 Joined on 10 October 2023
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@rosscarroll.bsky.socialPart of understanding privilege is understanding that in the global context you should be be an order or magnitude or three more ashamed of that aunt and uncle of yours than you are already
Show Postreally enjoying all the Americans screaming GET VACCINATED in the comments as though the reason ppl in Bangladesh aren't getting vaccinated is remotely similar to why your idiot aunt and uncle in Wisconsin refuse to, one group is dying without it, the other spits in the eye of being given everything
Show PostSave theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
Show PostWorrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye. Ther ys no part of thee that evir koude be wrong.
Show PostReminds me of that Tesla flying car video. Rocket propulsion may be needed here too.
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