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Patris's avatar

This is a frontier.

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Deborah Brasket's avatar

I think you are right about Substack, and the fact that we are entering a new age of rethinking everything when it comes to publishing (whether books, music, art, etc) and how to connect with readers/listeners/viewers. It' freeing and promising and I hope will continue to develop. And I hope the publishing field will ride its coattails at some point, but probably not in my lifetime.

As for the politics, I will have to respectfully disagree with you. I think the word woke has gotten a bad rap, has been maligned, in fact. Perhaps both the right and left are moving toward the extremes, but I happen to like the "extreme" that the left is moving, opening up gender and racial and sexual divides, giving people more choices in how to identify themselves. There's a richness there, and a kindness, and a truthfulness. Boys have not always been boys and girls have not always been girls from ages past, in the narrow ways the genders have been defined. Do we want biological male who identify a female to play women's sports? Maybe, maybe not. But do we want to ban books about transgenders, about our racial past, about kids with two moms or two dads, that's a solid no for me. The liberal extremes it seems to me is moving in a direction that is more inclusive, more tolerant, more kind, more open-minded, while the conservative Right is moving in a direction that is more intolerant, more exclusive, more mean-spirited, more violent, more racist and homophobic. I can't see how you can equate the two as equally "bad". Maybe you can explain more what you mean.

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