I’m going to be earnest for a second because you were too in this piece:
Your writing has made my life, frankly, better. The way you write about cycling is the thing that made me love the sport, and I am truly grateful. Your writing has made me realise that sports, and the way we think and talk about them, can be so much deeper, more poli…
I’m going to be earnest for a second because you were too in this piece:
Your writing has made my life, frankly, better. The way you write about cycling is the thing that made me love the sport, and I am truly grateful. Your writing has made me realise that sports, and the way we think and talk about them, can be so much deeper, more political, and more beautiful than I had thought.
You probably don’t give yourself enough credit when you say that writing is the only thing you can do but I will say that you are, as you hopefully have internalised, a hell of a writer and thinker. And while I completely agree with your overall diagnosis of the particular dead-end we’re in culturally and socially, I will say (perhaps with some biased hope as an academic) that people who take the time to think and read and write deeply are important to anything we can build in the aftermath of all of this burning down.
I don’t know how to end this and it does feel a tiny bit overfamiliar but I guess one of the things that’s wrong with our current discourse is the lack of earnestness, lack of vulnerability and lack of real human connection — even if those things are there it sure is gauche to acknowledge them, a very 2010s way of talking online if you will. I guess what I’m trying to say is: solidarity, and also, thank you.
I’m going to be earnest for a second because you were too in this piece:
Your writing has made my life, frankly, better. The way you write about cycling is the thing that made me love the sport, and I am truly grateful. Your writing has made me realise that sports, and the way we think and talk about them, can be so much deeper, more political, and more beautiful than I had thought.
You probably don’t give yourself enough credit when you say that writing is the only thing you can do but I will say that you are, as you hopefully have internalised, a hell of a writer and thinker. And while I completely agree with your overall diagnosis of the particular dead-end we’re in culturally and socially, I will say (perhaps with some biased hope as an academic) that people who take the time to think and read and write deeply are important to anything we can build in the aftermath of all of this burning down.
I don’t know how to end this and it does feel a tiny bit overfamiliar but I guess one of the things that’s wrong with our current discourse is the lack of earnestness, lack of vulnerability and lack of real human connection — even if those things are there it sure is gauche to acknowledge them, a very 2010s way of talking online if you will. I guess what I’m trying to say is: solidarity, and also, thank you.