The Things I’m Afraid to Write About
Fear of professional exile has kept me from taking on certain topics. What gets lost when a writer mutes herself?
By Sarah Hepola
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/writing-controversial-opinions-journalism/627014/
2022 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest Guidelines
I posted before about E.O. Wilson's "The Origins of Creativity" and now that I'm 3/4 through it I'm even more emphatic that any creative persons or person wanting to learn about creativity give it a read.
Well I despised the last E. O. Wilson book I read - "The Social Conquest of Earth" because I found him completely off base
But
His recent book on Creativity which I'm currently reading is Wonderful and Everyone should read it! And then about 1/3 in I come across this which says even more, Everyone Should Read this Book:
"Why then are the humanities kept on starvation rations? Partly because so much of our available resources are appropriated by organized religions. The vast majority of people around the world belong to one particular religious faith or another, which is defined not so much by a belief in God as by its idiosyncratic creation myth. Each member is committed to believe that his religion’s creation myth, accounting for the supernatural origin of the universe and humanity, is superior to all others. The problem is that all the myths cannot be correct; no two can be correct; and almost certainly none is correct."
' #Greenland is the #world’s #largest #island, a #sprawling #landmass covered by a notoriously #receding #ice #sheet. With a population of just 56,000, it’s also one of the #least #populated places on #Earth. The vast majority of these #Greenlanders are #Greenlandic #Inuit, with roots on the island stretching back centuries. Recent decades, however, have brought a new kind a visitor – #climate #scientists with #complex #devices for #drilling and #prodding the Earth. Setting up #temporary #camps that tend to leave #permanent #marks, they aim to peer into the deep past #preserved in the #ice, hoping that it will offer hints about the climate’s precarious #future.
An #impressionistic work of #nonfiction with #science-fiction influences, #Utuqaq (‘ice that lasts year after year’) juxtaposes images of a #scientific #expedition to Greenland’s ice sheet with a #poem about the visitors, narrated in #Kalaallisut, a variant of Greenlandic Inuit language, by #AviajaLyberth. As the filmmaker #IvaRadivojevic’s #otherworldly and often #beautiful #exploration unfolds, two distinct perspectives on the #stark #white #landscape slowly emerge. #climatechange #short #documentary #stunning #poetic #arctic #film
