A. L. Kennedy has it right;
'The Overwhelm is the friend of every dodgy sales pitch
for bad leaders, bad ideas, bad products,
because it extinguishes thought.
Headlines and influencers, online radicalisation
they all get more unquestioning traction
if whatever they say overwhelms.
Authoritarians conjure horrors of the imagination
whilst planning real ones
and trashing the governments
we pay to guard and serve us.
Predators thrive in storms and profitable instability
whilst we waste valuable mental bandwidth
we don't have trying to understand chaos....
The storms in our lives, minds, bodies, hearts,
they can all be just as damaging as Storm Eowyn
but when we are overwhelmed The Overwhelm
we can make us lose heart in anything ever being put right.
Listen to the full ten minute talk by her here.
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