Boring Is The New Interesting. - Guy Delancey

Bill Moyers Question: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a tough book. It’s not Dispatches from Disneyworld. It paints some very stark portraits of poverty, despair, destructive behaviour. What makes you think people want to read that sort of thing these days?

Chris Hedges Answer: That’s not a question that Joe Sacco and I ever asked. It is absolutely imperative that we begin to understand what unfettered, unregulated capitalism does – the violence of that system.

Painting by Paco Pomet in Banksy’s Dismaland.

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.” - Joss Whedon

Photo by Dave Roth

“Let them eat cake.” - Marie Antoinette

“In times of destruction, create something.” - Maxine Hong Kingston

Painting by Paul Davey. http://www.mattahan.com/

“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann

Illustration by Ture Ekroos

"Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained. And the formats - in news and documentaries - have become so rigid and repetitive that the audiences never really look at them.” - Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis

Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez.

“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” - David Bowie

"What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?" - Anonymous

“If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle everyday to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.” - Arundhati Roy

Photo by Luiz Vasconcelos.

"Netflix's programming is based on algorithms, and the results are mixed. Even though HBO spends way less money, they continue to have better programming on average because they stick with their programming philosophy, which is fundamentally trust the artist!" ― John Koblin, On the Media podcast, 12/9/2022