The revolution is here, and Hari is its chronicler
by Jura Watchmaker, 19 August 2007
I read Johann Hari’s latest Indescribable article on the the tail end of a heavy Salvia Divinorum and whisky session, and suddenly found myself wrenched from psychedelic reality to a fantastic, Alician land of make-believe. No dragons here, but legions of environmentalists aggressively committed to non-violence.
“I hope you appreciate how I manage to keep under control my deep desire to kick your fucking head in,” says full-time protester Gemima Fyckwitte-Smythe, 20.
Marquees, windmills, compost crappers, the Glastonbury spirit, and switched-on scientists with bouncing toddlers saying, well, basically, we’re all up shit creek, and it’s all your fault.
And the Hari is there, in his leaking tent, as he is at all the epoch-making events of contemporary human history.
Hail the Hari, a hero for our troubled times!
Sunday 19 August 2007 at 13:34
Funny.
By all accounts its been a grim washout, but not for Hari and his fantastical world.
Sunday 19 August 2007 at 13:39
Hari’s fabulous world.
Sunday 19 August 2007 at 14:06
She is drowned out by the roar of a cheap flight far above
Was the plane painted in Burberry pattern?
Oh, the quivering, curling lip, the wobbling glistening chins!
Personally, I’d be more interested in a protest which aimed at curtailing - or better - abolishing private internal combustion engine vehicle ownership, reducing the number of HGVs on the road, improving the rail networks, and stopping our towns and cities being designed around cars instead of people, and greenfields being tarmaced over in the name of the mighty motor. But that’s never going to happen is it? Nothing must be allowed to chip away at the edifice of the sainted ’school run’?
Monday 20 August 2007 at 9:47
He’s off on one again today projecting his own narcissitic loneliness onto the rest of society.
¨Is it a coincidence that a profoundly lonely society like ours - where few of us feel part of anything larger than our families and our workplaces - is a society taking industrial quantities of anti-depressants? Is it so strange that many of us felt elated by being part of the crowd that September? Instead of deriding Diana week, we should be searching for ways to periodically recapture the togetherness we felt then, for a flickering moment, before we crawled shamefaced back into our concrete boxes.¨
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/johann_hari/article2878760.ece
Monday 20 August 2007 at 9:47
It’s enough to make you weep. Someone buy the man a Leonard Cohen album.
Tuesday 21 August 2007 at 8:05
Does shagging Nazis leave him feeling all empty inside?
Tuesday 21 August 2007 at 8:09
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,859056,00.html