Ed Yong's new newsletter is good.
Nathan Johnson, the Democratic attorney-general-elect of Texas (and former Dragonball Z composer)... said:
“When something has been a certain way for a long time, everyone assumes that it’s permanently that way. Someone said to me recently, ‘Texas has been red for 30 years. Those are daunting odds.’ Those aren’t odds at all. That’s just a description of the state of things. It’s not permanent.”
https://buttondown.com/edyong209/archive/the-ed-s-up-those-aren-t-odds-at-all/
Reminds me of the Le Guin quote.
Ursula K. Le Guin, in 2014:
Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.