Alex P Roe
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Alex P Roe's Bio
Resident in #Italy for years - am behind @newsfromitaly on X/Twitter and on Mastodon. I write short scifi stories, some appear on Thoughts from Italy on #Medium: https://medium.com/@thoughtsfromitaly
Am interested in #politics and #geopolitics plus #technology and a few other things as well. I teach English, do video interviews hold the odd webinar and do translations from time to time. Have also started writing articles about the glass industry - smashing work😀
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 That austerity is required so frequently appears to suggest that austerity doesn’t work! Well, it does seem to keep the rich rich and even make many even richer!
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so it is working, then; just not for us....
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 Yup, I agree.
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 What few seem to appreciate is just how incredibly rapidly the change is happening! And it’s still accelerating. Stopping this is probably impossible now, we need to learn to live with it and, maybe, stop it from worsening (but I suspect it’s far too late for that).
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too late for anything other than coping, I think
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 I don’t think kids are weaker it’s just that they’ve been brought up in the shadow of instability. Nervous parents perpetually worried about the future probably don’t generate the happiest family atmosphere (I have some experience of this from both sides, as a child and a parent). It’s the fault of #neoliberalism I suspect. Not much time to be a child these days either.
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Yes, I do wonder about the threshold of semi-adulthood becoming way too young - we seem to allow children too few years to enjoy being children
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@ChrisMayLA6 I bet that led to some very interesting discussions indeed. Plenty of examples: tangerine tyrant and Musky spring to mind. Conflicted geniuses seem to be fairly common, in as much as geniuses can be commonplace! But that could be because we only hear about the troubled ones.
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@ChrisMayLA6 Not only arts! But still, leaves one feeling a wee bit conflicted.
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@ChrisMayLA6 Great music but not a great person is the impression one might get from Green’s Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Green
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