Lucidity is defined as A) The quality of being easily understood; completely intelligible; comprehensible, B) The ability to see things clearly; rationality; sanity. George Monbiot fits the bill on all counts.
I bring it up since for me most news accounts I read or hear these days are painful because of reporter’s superficial, heck downright childish perspectives and gapping blindspots. Not to mention the general normalizing and humoring of Serial Lies as a way of conducting business. They have nothing to offer but filler and leave one as clueless as when we began their stories.
On the other hand, when it comes to recognizing and explicating down to Earth physical and human realities and their impact on humanity and our society George Monbiot has a brutally cold realism that I find refreshing. Plus his stories are packed with links to his original sources enabling all readers to further familiarize themselves, rather than expecting us to simply take his word for it. He wants to inform and encourage readers to learn more on their own.
It seems he believes in the Constructive Debate were better understanding of all sides and were arriving at the most objective complete understanding is the goal. Rather than those petty Republican dogma driven dog-chasing-tail debates were never arriving at any actionable conclusions is the goal of the exercise.
Tragically too few these days represent that sort of sober approach to living and dealing with problems and a threatening future that promises to get ever tougher with continuing human failures. I've been thinking about it since I'm working on yet another Monbiot bootleg (thought I continue endeavoring to get through to him and arrange some sort of official sanction - and have succeeded, see the comments) and I was trying to think of a solid way to show my appreciation. Thus, this index with links to Monbiot’s blog posts going back to September 2015 after that I have a link to Alternate's complete index.
I start with a few of his recent UK’s Guardian Op-eds which should be required reading for anyone intending to oppose and moderate Trump Administration damage to our American government. Oh, and I encourage you to copy this and pass it around. I would think there are many who would benefit from becoming familiar with Monbiot's work.
Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it.
George Monbiot | November 30, 2016
Many of his staffers are from an opaque corporate misinformation network. We must understand this if we are to have any hope of fighting back against them
