Video Conversation: With Nick Cotton

‘I have friends who just don’t have That Thing. They don’t know what I’m doing. They don’t understand why I’m doing what I’m doing. Maybe understandably, because I don’t understand it either!’

Searching for the Soul’s True Note

‘Life isn’t a holiday in Benidorm: “It’s the last weekend, let’s have a real blow-out!” I don’t know what it is, really, but it’s not that.’

Back on with Nick Cotton (Jack D) on his UnWAShED podcast. We first spoke in early 2020, at the height of the post-coup nightmare, and then again towards the end of that year. In this conversation we revisit those times and the intervening period, poking out meanings and implications, scoping the loss and grief, but also the hope that we may yet turn this around.

On YouTube, Nick labels his video ‘no spoilers,’ and I feel (more or less) bound to respect that. So just a couple of tasters:

‘I’m heartbroken about Ireland and what’s happened to it, and I’m blown away — in a very bad way — by the fact that so many of my countrymen don’t even seem to notice that something’s happening, whereas the country is being stolen out from under us.’

Watch/listen on YouTube:

‘Those guys in Davos are not communists. They’re capitalists of a very particular kind — monopoly capitalists. They’re the last capitalists who want to draw all the money towards themselves.’

To watch/listen on Odysee, click here

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