Comments on: 1984 http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2004/05/1984/ Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:01:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: lva http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2004/05/1984/comment-page-1/#comment-4840 lva Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:03:37 +0000 #comment-4840 Oho! Japan time, you’re right. Thanks for that, and welcome to British Summertime. (Actually, that clock adjustment has allowed me to reply to your comment <em>before</em> you even left it. Brilliant!) Oho! Japan time, you’re right. Thanks for that, and welcome to British Summertime.

(Actually, that clock adjustment has allowed me to reply to your comment before you even left it. Brilliant!)

]]> By: tom grundy http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2004/05/1984/comment-page-1/#comment-4839 tom grundy Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:18:00 +0000 #comment-4839 YES! So true, I've read so much about the problems facing us, but it was really refreshing to read Monbiot's manifesto which actually offers a way forward. The guy attracts a lot of criticism, it's a shame more writers aren't as "radical". I think it's also cool the global resistance movement now has academics supporting our cause - Naomi Klein, Chomsky and this guy - who write objectively rather than in angry rants... [PS - your blog is still set to Japan time!] YES! So true, I’ve read so much about the problems facing us, but it was really refreshing to read Monbiot’s manifesto which actually offers a way forward. The guy attracts a lot of criticism, it’s a shame more writers aren’t as “radical”. I think it’s also cool the global resistance movement now has academics supporting our cause – Naomi Klein, Chomsky and this guy – who write objectively rather than in angry rants… [PS - your blog is still set to Japan time!]

]]> By: lva http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2004/05/1984/comment-page-1/#comment-4660 lva Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:46:19 +0000 #comment-4660 Thank you Mr. Grundy. Re-reading the above, I realise I only obliquely mentioned the event that prompted it, and a couple of years on it’s perhaps not immediately obvious what this was, so as a two-years-on postscript to put the above in a historical context, the particular object of my disgust and fury here was the Abu Ghraib scandal. Thank you for the recommendation — actually I like Monbiot and I’ve read The Age of Consent: I found it very thought-provoking, and impressive that he manages to make such utterly radical changes to the structure of the world seem not only possible but necessary. What I liked most about it I think was that the book is essentially an optimistic and constructive one, unlike a lot of writings on this sort of topic: that instead of focussing just on what’s wrong with the world the emphasis is really on what might be done to make things <em>better</em> (a much, much trickier point). It’s one of the few things I’ve read in recent years that actually left me feeling a little optimistic about the future of the world. Thank you Mr. Grundy. Re-reading the above, I realise I only obliquely mentioned the event that prompted it, and a couple of years on it’s perhaps not immediately obvious what this was, so as a two-years-on postscript to put the above in a historical context, the particular object of my disgust and fury here was the Abu Ghraib scandal.

Thank you for the recommendation — actually I like Monbiot and I’ve read The Age of Consent: I found it very thought-provoking, and impressive that he manages to make such utterly radical changes to the structure of the world seem not only possible but necessary. What I liked most about it I think was that the book is essentially an optimistic and constructive one, unlike a lot of writings on this sort of topic: that instead of focussing just on what’s wrong with the world the emphasis is really on what might be done to make things better (a much, much trickier point). It’s one of the few things I’ve read in recent years that actually left me feeling a little optimistic about the future of the world.

]]> By: tom grundy http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2004/05/1984/comment-page-1/#comment-4478 tom grundy Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:39:37 +0000 #comment-4478 good stuff nick, and i felt the same after reading it myself - it's ridiculously, scarily relelvant more and more each day... my fist shaking led to some more direct action during my time in hongkong http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk/rants/activism.html check out george monbiot, you may know him from the Guardian - he's written a great book called The Age of Consent - A Manifesto for a New World Order... it shows where the real power in the world lies and how we can replace it with a more democratic, fairer system. =o) good stuff nick, and i felt the same after reading it myself – it’s ridiculously, scarily relelvant more and more each day… my fist shaking led to some more direct action during my time in hongkong http://www.globalcitizen.co.uk/rants/activism.html check out george monbiot, you may know him from the Guardian – he’s written a great book called The Age of Consent – A Manifesto for a New World Order… it shows where the real power in the world lies and how we can replace it with a more democratic, fairer system. =o)

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