I made the mistake of scanning UKB and all I can say is "too soon man, too soon."
It was like reading our public broadcaster - the ABC (AlwaysBeCommunist). I feel a teensy bit dirty and squalid now but it's probably just my white fragility. Lucky I am female so I can claim at least a little intersectional oppression.
Cheers. Your last podcast was, as always, brilliant and funny and incisive.
Dear Andi, thank you for your comments on how mainstream thinking and living is becoming a feature of todays Zeitgeist. Every form of life is levelled out. As I am, or better was, an Industrial Designer (Besides being a climber) I notice it in many of the objects we create. Funnily enough especially in automotive design. Cars are looking all the same. No company dares to risk a bold concept in case of failure. The shareholders would not be pleased! Maybe this is a feature of prosperity of western society. We have become now become afraid of loosing the comfort we have gained. (By exploiting the labour of poorer countries).
Anyway I would like to stay more in contact with you Andi, to change ideas especially about climbing. I will gladly make a financial contribution to your writing, but I’m not willing to pay substack. How do I go about it?
To my person: I‘m James G. Skone, a retired Professor of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria. Did a lot of, what I would call - cultural transfer - from what I experienced in the 1960 in England (I‘m 76 now) to Austria or maybe even the Eastern Alps. Amongst other things I did with my wife Krista and friends the first waterfall ice climbs in 1977, 1978 in Austria.
Climbed in Uk, Troll Wall, second ascent Norwegan route, learned to hate big walls, climbed Yosemite, loved Tuolumne, climbed big routes in eastern alps, in Tchech Sandstone, etc.etc.
Hi James, the most dangerous thing we can do is play it safe, be it the cars we design, the films that are made, or the thoughts in our heads! It seems the way of things for some societies to die from the inside out, generally due to complacency (we think the milk and honey will go on forever); what comes after tends to lay the foundations of something better, or at least more interesting (if you can live through it). No need for support, and well done on the 2nd ascent of the Norwegian route!
Hi Andi:
I made the mistake of scanning UKB and all I can say is "too soon man, too soon."
It was like reading our public broadcaster - the ABC (AlwaysBeCommunist). I feel a teensy bit dirty and squalid now but it's probably just my white fragility. Lucky I am female so I can claim at least a little intersectional oppression.
Cheers. Your last podcast was, as always, brilliant and funny and incisive.
Dear Andi, thank you for your comments on how mainstream thinking and living is becoming a feature of todays Zeitgeist. Every form of life is levelled out. As I am, or better was, an Industrial Designer (Besides being a climber) I notice it in many of the objects we create. Funnily enough especially in automotive design. Cars are looking all the same. No company dares to risk a bold concept in case of failure. The shareholders would not be pleased! Maybe this is a feature of prosperity of western society. We have become now become afraid of loosing the comfort we have gained. (By exploiting the labour of poorer countries).
Anyway I would like to stay more in contact with you Andi, to change ideas especially about climbing. I will gladly make a financial contribution to your writing, but I’m not willing to pay substack. How do I go about it?
To my person: I‘m James G. Skone, a retired Professor of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria. Did a lot of, what I would call - cultural transfer - from what I experienced in the 1960 in England (I‘m 76 now) to Austria or maybe even the Eastern Alps. Amongst other things I did with my wife Krista and friends the first waterfall ice climbs in 1977, 1978 in Austria.
Climbed in Uk, Troll Wall, second ascent Norwegan route, learned to hate big walls, climbed Yosemite, loved Tuolumne, climbed big routes in eastern alps, in Tchech Sandstone, etc.etc.
(all this just to show my credibility 😂).
my blog, website: www.no-to-po.com email: skone@vienna.at
Would love to get a reply from you.
Cheers James
Hi James, the most dangerous thing we can do is play it safe, be it the cars we design, the films that are made, or the thoughts in our heads! It seems the way of things for some societies to die from the inside out, generally due to complacency (we think the milk and honey will go on forever); what comes after tends to lay the foundations of something better, or at least more interesting (if you can live through it). No need for support, and well done on the 2nd ascent of the Norwegian route!