Video conversation: Watching For The Thaw
'To not be Adolf Hitler — overnight — is a shocking experience, after being him for two years.'
At the halfway point of the ‘Covid Project’, I return to where I made my first tentative rumblings of dissent 30 months ago, in March 2020: on Computing Forever, with Dave Cullen.
We peer into the depths of the psychic damage that has been imposed in the meantime, the dynamics of the strange intermission we have just experienced, and the prospects of a continuation of the present accidental ‘thaw’ in the mass-entrancement of our friends and neighbours, as we await the lifting of the curtain on the next and most crucial Act.