Andrew Sage

a this is such a fascinating time in history right like i used to teach a class about culture and colonialism back in the day and we would talk a lot about like this time period like the the post windrush period where like caribbean political culture was very influential even in in the metropole right in in britain specifically like uh

This is when we have ska music and then punk music arriving from that, which is a serious political force in the 20th century.

It's easy for people to sniff at that or whatever, but that's the reason I am the way I am.

So I guess I have a fondness for it.

With tanks, that's where we get the word tanky from, or it can crumble like by people turning up and telling the cops to surrender.

little two, three decade period in history before the state, I guess, recovers its advantage in terms of violence and surveillance.

Yeah.

I marvel at this time because, I mean, they didn't have the social media and stuff to connect people and, you know, advertise.

They were having this protest or this action or this whatever.

But the networks were still there.

You know, they were organic and they were motivated by a genuine sense of

that alternative was actionable.

Yeah.

You know, I think we have this sort of 21st century malaise of cynicism.

It's like, that was tried before, you know?

Yeah.

Every time we look at something, we can just say, oh, that was tried before and they failed.

When we look back at history, the people who tried those things, they didn't know if it was going to work out or not.

They just tried it.

I wouldn't be surprised if I was a fly on the wall on the day of this coup, if the neutral movement guys were just like, wait, what?