Rhyd I just started watching the interview and your metaphor of standing in the same place then finding the map has been redrawn is spot-on. I remember when I first realised that what I personally do doesn't stop culture shift: it was when digital photography came in and I was like, well, I'll just stick with film. Then over time all the…
Rhyd I just started watching the interview and your metaphor of standing in the same place then finding the map has been redrawn is spot-on. I remember when I first realised that what I personally do doesn't stop culture shift: it was when digital photography came in and I was like, well, I'll just stick with film. Then over time all the films I liked to use disappeared one by one, then finally the labs closed. Then everyone's idea of what a photo is, and what it means to take one, and ideas around ethics and consent, morphed more and more until I was like- I don't want to be a photographer any more. It means something different now.
I noticed the same thing at the start of the Pandemic. Previously people had called me a nihilist and an extremist and suchlike (for wanting to discuss politics and the end of the world an so on), then when they got rabbit-holed, they were calling me a shill for the Man (for wanting to discuss politics and the end of the world, but not in their terms), and I was like- I'm still standing in the exact same place. It's you who have moved.
Q.: How are your dreams these days? (I mean literal sleep dreams.)
Gordon is incorrect about NZ politics though. Ardern will never admit it, but she was basically hounded out of office. And Labour have lost plenty of elections- prior to the Ardern Govt we had three terms of John Key. Key, AKA 'Teflon John', a multi-millionaire merchant banker, did the same thing as Ardern: resigned mid-term, then went back to work for the banks.
Oh, my dreams -- utterly incomprehensible since equinox. Just before they felt like clear conversations, but now they feel like walking through a foreign city with everyone speaking a different language. Eager to hopefully learn this new language they're speaking in...
Rhyd I just started watching the interview and your metaphor of standing in the same place then finding the map has been redrawn is spot-on. I remember when I first realised that what I personally do doesn't stop culture shift: it was when digital photography came in and I was like, well, I'll just stick with film. Then over time all the films I liked to use disappeared one by one, then finally the labs closed. Then everyone's idea of what a photo is, and what it means to take one, and ideas around ethics and consent, morphed more and more until I was like- I don't want to be a photographer any more. It means something different now.
I noticed the same thing at the start of the Pandemic. Previously people had called me a nihilist and an extremist and suchlike (for wanting to discuss politics and the end of the world an so on), then when they got rabbit-holed, they were calling me a shill for the Man (for wanting to discuss politics and the end of the world, but not in their terms), and I was like- I'm still standing in the exact same place. It's you who have moved.
Q.: How are your dreams these days? (I mean literal sleep dreams.)
Gordon is incorrect about NZ politics though. Ardern will never admit it, but she was basically hounded out of office. And Labour have lost plenty of elections- prior to the Ardern Govt we had three terms of John Key. Key, AKA 'Teflon John', a multi-millionaire merchant banker, did the same thing as Ardern: resigned mid-term, then went back to work for the banks.
Oh, my dreams -- utterly incomprehensible since equinox. Just before they felt like clear conversations, but now they feel like walking through a foreign city with everyone speaking a different language. Eager to hopefully learn this new language they're speaking in...