This is As I Said..., a brand new site by me, Simon Lucy. Things will be up and running here shortly.
There won't be any need to subscribe, all the posts will be public, but if you want to comment you can subscribe.
We are perpetually, perhaps even cyclically, possessed by our perception of social discourse now primarily in social media. We compare it unfavourably with how it used to be, before Trump, before Brexit before whatever time; before the Interweb, before Facebook, before Twitter and Reddit. The relative heat, the name calling,
It isn’t a matter of rank or seniority, though it is connected, it is whether you are in the circle, the gang, one of the guys, ‘U’ rather than ‘non-U’. It is a social group as well as authoritative.
What I intend publishing here is as much an experiment as as well as having some value and interest. I will repost some older essays from Medium and begin on creating on the themes that interest me. These should be longer form than single posts on BlueSky or Mastodon. Themes