There will no brave solo hero like in films. Pervasive awareness and sustained attention are hardly telegenic. What must be borne, transformed, returned or achieved will be done by some ordinary people together and not by a maverick lone man or teenage girl who is gonna - godammit - save the day. It'll most likely be small groups, large groups, not necessarily even exclusively by humans. These people will be what we currently call friends. This friendship can include family, it can embrace the inanimate. Kindness will be appropriate. There will be stops for meals and tea. There will be backtracking and head-scratching, possibly snogging and most likely some fights, but mainly there'll be heart. Not only will it famously not be televised but neither will it be recognised or theorised. Commenters won't even apprehend it - we are as mould on bread to them. We are not available for their consumption, and we taint a bigot's daily bread with our fuzzy distasteful ways. There will be yielding, and this will be our resistance. There will be steadfastness and at the heart - true connexion.
First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, October 30th 2023.
Episode 49 - No hero