Hmm, I guess I agree with your critique. But still, the main reason I wanted to post this is because it counters the otherwise black and white perception of the state of things that reading the news has lead me to. IMHO you are overthinking a bit when you see techno optimism as their metric of progress, although this is something that spending time on Lemmy has also made me do.
I do think this isn’t a bad idea for an article, there are definitely things on the up and up - it’s just kind of infuriating to see a person with this perspective being the one doing it. I want to see a disabled/queer/immigrant/Roma perspective on what particular aspects of British society are improving, because any of those will much more insightful than a person comfortably cushioned from even some of the milder effects of brutal govt policy. My suspicion however, is that very few people from any of those groups would be willing to write something like this right now
Hmm, I guess I agree with your critique. But still, the main reason I wanted to post this is because it counters the otherwise black and white perception of the state of things that reading the news has lead me to. IMHO you are overthinking a bit when you see techno optimism as their metric of progress, although this is something that spending time on Lemmy has also made me do.
I do think this isn’t a bad idea for an article, there are definitely things on the up and up - it’s just kind of infuriating to see a person with this perspective being the one doing it. I want to see a disabled/queer/immigrant/Roma perspective on what particular aspects of British society are improving, because any of those will much more insightful than a person comfortably cushioned from even some of the milder effects of brutal govt policy. My suspicion however, is that very few people from any of those groups would be willing to write something like this right now
Ahh I understand what you meant now