Living in the Twin Cities, and feeling the need to monitor The Situation daily––not to mention keep abreast of our hyper-local neighborhood chat (~100 neighbors in an area of 16 city blocks)—which puts all personal rules about online news and smartphone usage in shambles, I’m having to be even more intentional in seeking out sources beyond the noise to try to make sense of things. Here’s what I’ve turned to in the last week or so:
-the Psalms (for obvious reasons)
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (the final section on the anatomy of totalitarianisms)
-MLK Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail (what is principled opposition to authority?)
-@ayjay’s writings on anarchism (what are the possibilities opened up by organizing with neighbors?)
-Zena Hitz’s Lost in Thought (what ultimate ends do politics enable anyway?)