I’ve been gratified to
I’ve been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality. Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit
What is kind of
What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone in New Orleans was a monster, in the immediate aftermath more than 200,000 people invite displaced strangers into their homes through hurricanehousing.org and an uncounted horde go to New Orleans and the Gulf … Read more
In the aftermath of
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation and trivialization to feel engaged, connected, purposeful, ready to give, to engage, to care, to learn. Rebecca Solnit
For me the insurrectionary
For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive – Mexico City’s big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change. Rebecca Solnit
I’m a big fan
I’m a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America. Rebecca Solnit
There are disasters that
There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural. Rebecca Solnit
I am against resources
I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn’t mean I want them controlled by the state. Rebecca Solnit
At a certain fork
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab … Read more
A labyrinth is a
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. Rebecca Solnit
The oil dinosaurs want
The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes. Rebecca Solnit