This week’s postroll is a bit modest in selection. You could say “quality over quantity” was this week’s unofficial motto.

• Depriving Yourself of Art Isn’t the Answer: This was in response to my post about the ethics of enjoying (subjectively) good art by (objectively) bad people. It has plenty of good advice on how to approach this that I’m taking to heart. I love it when a conversation happens through blogging!
• Community, Not “Engagement”: Basically what I said in the last sentence above. I tried to replicate some social media feel on my blog for whatever reason and I realized I didn’t like any of it. Any singular email conversation I’ve had with people on here is each worth than hundreds of comments/upvotes combined. I love it when someone replies to me with their own post like visionaryhussy did in the above post. These interactions are individually much more meaningful and intentional than a comment/upvote ever could.
• Stenography is not Journalism: I harbor so much anger towards the “Conference of Parties” – commonly known as COP## – and don’t understand how anyone could believe in reforming the same institutions which have gotten us here. The piece only discusses that one article in the Financial Times, but I think everything said there applies to pretty much every publication you can think of at the top of your head; how each one of them volunteers to be free ad space for the fossil fuel industry.