Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
The White Knuckle Ride of 2022 (Otto English / Byline Times)
This bumptious idiot – so bursting with self-importance and entitlement – left behind the embers of a burning nation torched in the interests of his own personal ambition. His backing of Brexit and his scrambling for power had finally, in 2019, won him the prize he had coveted since childhood. But gifted the crown he had proved himself to be the incompetent and chaotic clown that many of us had long suspected. His mishandling of a pandemic which saw 200,000 people die was bad enough, but that he partied on at Downing Street while the rest of us were unable to mourn our dead was a slap in the nation’s collective face.
Video games can make climate change real for players – here’s how (Adam Smith / Context)
The goal is to close the psychological gap between what people know and what they resonate with, said Hamid Homatash, a lecturer on computer games at Glasgow Caledonian University.
“You can be told all this information that the ice caps are melting, but what does that really mean? It’s quite alien in a way, because you can’t really comprehend that experience,” he said over a video call.
“You keep having them and we’ll keep raising them” (Representative Maloney)
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