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New Statesman: Alongside the icons we lost in 2016, we're mourning for a world that felt like it was changing for the better.
No More Heroes
This has been a spiteful fucker of a year. The terrorist atrocities, the refugee crisis and the fall of Western Democracy would have been enough by themselves, but really - Carrie Fisher? George Michael, on Christmas Day? That was a bit much. De trop. Unnecessary. And yet, somehow, it also seemed inevitable.
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"Let the people mourn, please. Let them make gifs and badly-photoshopped memes of remembrance and scatter them across the internet like earth on the grave of a kinder culture."
This piece would probably be better suited in /reads, since it's not actually news.
But in this moment, I don't care.
Thanks for pointing that community out to me. I wasn't sure about sharing this here but felt that the retrospective tone made it seem enough like a news item.
The moment all your dreams are about to come true is the moment that things go completely wrong
Sausage Fingers being elected the same year Ali dies was what settled it for me. The West is dead.
That was a haunting read. Thank you for sharing.