Reading your essays is like reliving my favourite Political Science courses. As always, blown away by the depth of your research and knowledge and how effortlessly you convey it. I love this line
“Pages in this playbook turn to the drumbeat of war and pumps of fossil fuel”
That little detail about you being the female lead on George Packer’s play was a fun surprise.
I love that you always end your essays on a hopeful note! Thank you for educating us. I always feel a little bit smarter after reading your work!
Thank you for the high praise. I love that line too, and gave myself a high five when I wrote it. I find focusing on the craft of writing makes it easier to wade through topics that are extra heavy.
Even though it is true that young people, like myself, do see what's wrong and never shy from calling it out, but I will always be wary of painting us all with the same brush. The thing is: people from my generation also continue to work for oil companies, AI companies that might not be completely cognisant of their products' social implications, etc. - not care - and so on and so forth.
Having said that, even though I consider myself anti-war, this article made me stop at multiple times to recognize the sheer scale of injustices by the empire and its allies, and made me see things in a new light. Thanks for this eye-opening writing, Sahar!
You’re absolutely right, my qualifier for the younger generation should’ve given more room for folks building their individual lives and futures in capitalist systems without thinking of the larger collective, whether that be for trauma, shortsightedness or ignorance. I think for me I do a comparison between when I was leaving college and now. And see I huge change. Even most of my social science cohort did not understand my ideological stances of the world when we were entering the job market. I was pretty clear I could never work with the an oil or insurance or finance based company and was pretty particular about the entity behind the company I worked for. And I refused to get a credit card. I used to get crazy looks if it ever came up, I don’t think my stance or worldview is as fringe as it was in 2004. So overall I see a shift. It’s harder for everyone to ignore the complicity of companies and countries. Too much information. But there will always be folks with a scarcity and survivalist mindset that won’t think of the collective or future generations.
Reading your essays is like reliving my favourite Political Science courses. As always, blown away by the depth of your research and knowledge and how effortlessly you convey it. I love this line
“Pages in this playbook turn to the drumbeat of war and pumps of fossil fuel”
That little detail about you being the female lead on George Packer’s play was a fun surprise.
I love that you always end your essays on a hopeful note! Thank you for educating us. I always feel a little bit smarter after reading your work!
Thank you for the high praise. I love that line too, and gave myself a high five when I wrote it. I find focusing on the craft of writing makes it easier to wade through topics that are extra heavy.
Its was like a river
Kept me going without any break for an hour of reading
Appreciated
Thank you, what a beautiful compliment. The words were flowing and I kept on going.
Sahar, I feel enlightened and can put puzzles into places after reading your excellent pieces. Thank you so much!
Love puzzles and happy I get to put them together with you.
Even though it is true that young people, like myself, do see what's wrong and never shy from calling it out, but I will always be wary of painting us all with the same brush. The thing is: people from my generation also continue to work for oil companies, AI companies that might not be completely cognisant of their products' social implications, etc. - not care - and so on and so forth.
Having said that, even though I consider myself anti-war, this article made me stop at multiple times to recognize the sheer scale of injustices by the empire and its allies, and made me see things in a new light. Thanks for this eye-opening writing, Sahar!
I agree with you. The understanding is better than it was a few years ago
You’re absolutely right, my qualifier for the younger generation should’ve given more room for folks building their individual lives and futures in capitalist systems without thinking of the larger collective, whether that be for trauma, shortsightedness or ignorance. I think for me I do a comparison between when I was leaving college and now. And see I huge change. Even most of my social science cohort did not understand my ideological stances of the world when we were entering the job market. I was pretty clear I could never work with the an oil or insurance or finance based company and was pretty particular about the entity behind the company I worked for. And I refused to get a credit card. I used to get crazy looks if it ever came up, I don’t think my stance or worldview is as fringe as it was in 2004. So overall I see a shift. It’s harder for everyone to ignore the complicity of companies and countries. Too much information. But there will always be folks with a scarcity and survivalist mindset that won’t think of the collective or future generations.