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Ian Douglas Rushlau's avatar

"I think the thing that Sinead O’Connor was teaching was that the world is a beautiful and wonderful place, full of beautiful and wonderful people, and that the appropriate response to that reality fact is joy and creativity and love—but also that we humans have bent our societies in inappropriate reaction to this truth, have structured their institutions to press human spirit into defaults that accommodate greed, cruelty, and abuse, and that the appropriate reaction to such corruption is anger: a creative and artistic anger that is not antithetical to love, but inextricably rooted in love for humanity’s impossible beauty, and scorn for those who would mar it with abuse for their own corrupt gain."

That's a string of sentences there.

Bracing clarity, brutally honest, inspiring. Simply true.

Thank you.

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Michelle Collyer's avatar

Sinéad and I are the same age. Her voice. Her rage. Her struggles. Her heartbreaking ability to dwell in the eye of swirling storms. They all informed who I am as a person.

I don’t say this lightly: Part of me died last week.

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