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The article… > The trauma unleashed by Brexit, and the bizarre prospect of a new national festival to mitigate against this self-inflicted wound Isn’t a mains
by nailer 6y ago
The article…
> The trauma unleashed by Brexit, and the bizarre prospect of a new national festival to mitigate against this self-inflicted wound
Isn’t a mainstream take on Brexit. Nor is calling the White Cube the ‘white pube’. It’s the author using some event as an excuse for a political rant, not sure why it made it this far on HN. Flagging it and moving on.
- FooBarBizBazz 6y agoI might be missing something but it doesn't read as a political rant to me, but as a mixed criticism-of/apologia-for the original festival. Brexit only enters because it's politically adjacent to the new festival, and the author is trying to limit damage to the memory of the old one due to guilt-by-association with Brexit, via the new festival. The essay is full of so many inside references that it takes a little figuring out, but by the end I have a picture of the conflicting impulses that the original festival attempted to reconcile, and it seems basically decent to me, which is what I think the author intended me to think.
- nailer 6y ago> the author is trying to limit damage to the memory of the old one due to guilt-by-association with Brexit To me that seems like an attempt to shoehorn the authors personal dislike of Brexit (and the white cube) into the topic. I don’t think would likely dislike an arts festival due to Brexit.