Rebecca Solnit
American writer; author of Wanderlust (2000), A Paradise Built in Hell (2009), Men Explain Things to Me (2014) and Hope in the Dark (2004). Columnist at The Guardian. Writes Meditations in an Emergency, a newsletter on climate, democracy and feminism.
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The current era is a global and national battle between oligarchy and democracy.
These will be crucial years because we are in a global and national battle between oligarchy and democracy.
meditationsinanemergency.comSaid 20 Oct 2026This on korrents
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The abundance of information can impede the ability to focus or analyze it.
There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it.
meditationsinanemergency.comSaid 9 Oct 2026This on korrents
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The current era is a global and national battle between oligarchy and democracy.
These will be crucial years because we are in a global and national battle between oligarchy and democracy.
The Democracy Vs. Oligarchy Showdown Is Here Said 20 Oct 2026
Big tech companies are building a world that must be resisted.
This is the world big tech will build if we let it. We must not let it.
The Democracy Vs. Oligarchy Showdown Is Here Said 20 Oct 2026
The current money problem is an oligarchy problem that is an anti-democracy problem.
In other words we have a money problem that is also an oligarchy problem that is an anti-democracy problem.
The Democracy Vs. Oligarchy Showdown Is Here Said 20 Oct 2026
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The abundance of information can impede the ability to focus or analyze it.
There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it.
"We're Breaking Up": On Communication Before and After the New Tech Said 9 Oct 2026
Digital technologies may be causing a contraction in the quality of human communication.
Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it.
"We're Breaking Up": On Communication Before and After the New Tech Said 9 Oct 2026
Corporations and governments are increasingly working together to monitor private communications.
We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them.
"We're Breaking Up": On Communication Before and After the New Tech Said 9 Oct 2026
The vision of a post-human future where machines replace biological life is dismal and barren.
The vision of machines clacking away on a post-human planet in the near future is, to me, dismal and barren.
Yes They Want to Kill Us: The Worshippers of Machines Versus Human Beings Said 19 Sept 2026
The tech industry's worldview often reduces human beings to mere brain functions that machines might perform better.
Inside the tech bubbles is a deeply flawed notion of our humanity that seems to reduce us to our brain functions, specifically brain functions that machines can do and maybe do better.
Yes They Want to Kill Us: The Worshippers of Machines Versus Human Beings Said 19 Sept 2026
Panic is a rare phenomenon in disasters.
Careful research has led disaster sociologists to the conclude that panic is a vanishingly rare phenomenon in disasters, part of an elaborate mythology of our weakness.
The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed Said 11 Sept 2026
Hollywood and government plans often incorrectly assume that people panic or act selfishly during crises.
Hollywood movies and too many government pandemic plans still presume that most of us are cowards or brutes, that we panic, trample each other, rampage, or freeze helplessly in moments of crisis and chaos.
The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed Said 11 Sept 2026
It is possible to go carbon neutral or carbon negative.
As for the "no stopping it," it is actually possible to go carbon neutral or carbon negative (if not currently likely).
Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires Said 6 Aug 2026
Human nature is malleable and shaped by societal beliefs and values.
The simplest response to that is that there is no one human nature: we are a malleable species, much shaped by the beliefs and values of the society we're from, and the same society, even the same family, can produce wildly varying specimens of humanity.
Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires Said 6 Aug 2026
In sudden disasters, people tend to revert to a default setting of solidarity and grassroots organizing.
Given that reality, it's striking that in sudden disasters people seem to revert to a default setting of solidarity, generosity, bravery, and a glorious capacity for grassroots organizing to meet the needs of the moment.
Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires Said 6 Aug 2026
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Where they publish
Site rebeccasolnit.net Her site: about, books, events and contact.
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Newsletter Meditations in an Emergency Her essays on climate, politics, democracy and hope.
Open meditationsinanemergency.com
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Bluesky @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Posts on politics, climate and books.
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