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Superglued to socialism

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

‘With love & rage…’.  This is how an existential threat to civilisation signs off. The cute tag hangs below Extinction Rebellion’s many invitations to civil disobedience, its authors seemingly unaware that affection extorted from fear is commonly labelled abuse. I am not interested in the current manifestation of this social movement whose rhetoric boasts all the depth of a manilla folder.

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