I am a swirling mass of contradictions and cognitive dissonance hoping an enterprising journalist will outsource his poor scruples to a private investigator who can hack my head and give me my opinions in a pithy headline.
I hate the Murdoch monopoly and craven Conservatives, but prefer a Murdoch with the human instincts to protect someone he likes (Rebekah Brooks) and has an emotional attachment to a disappearing industry that needs propping up to the anonimised depersonalised “interests of shareholders”.
I think communications should be sacrosanct and that the organisation that created the phone hackers should burn, but I applaud wikileaks.
I think information should be free but won’t tell Facebook what I am up to.
I don’t want to give my private details over to the state, but my Twitter account has my latest mental state.
I think the rioting is making a point, but it is not one the rioters are making. Even in this they are alienated from their actions.
I don’t mind when the rioters smash the windows at Tesco in Bristol, but am saddened when they take e-numbers off the shelves in Hackney.
I want all this to hurt the Tories politically, but know that the other side is also complicit.
how this resonates! Reminds me of Alice Walker “wrap your contradictions around you like a shawl, to parry stones, to keep you warm.”
Thank goodness for complexity, paradox, confusion and the voice to holler it all out.