Hi folks, tobias tinker here. (!)
To explain… Brooke, being pretty snowed under with DVD deadlines and such, has asked me to share in the blogging duties for a while to keep things fresh around here. He also ‘dared’ me to be brief (those who know me a little know it doesn’t exactly come naturally)…
So, I’m letting an able surrogate stand in for me: Harold Pinter, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for literature. EVERYONE should read his acceptance speech. It’s hard-hitting and heavy going, but hardly anyone is talking as openly and as passionately about what’s really going on as this, in as visible a forum. Read it in full before you believe the spin that will doubtless be applied in the mainstream press.
And hey – while I’m assigning massive reading assignments – when you’re done that, if you’re not sufficiently disturbed, and/or if you have the slightest doubts about the verity or the gravity of his assertions, read this too: Maureen Farrell’s fact-filled (and fully supported) tour of the history that has led us to this quite terrible place in history. And that’s only part I – when you get to the bottom, click on parts II and III. I know it’s a lot, but in the face of what’s at stake, we owe it to ourselves to get educated and start stripping away the lies.
Sorry my first installment is all doom-and-gloomy, but these are – no matter how you slice it – dark times. And I know I cheated on the brevity bit, but it’s for a good cause: knowledge, awareness, possibly even – dare I say it – hope for change?
-t