Today I'm borrowing from David Pell's NextDraft newsletter. This makes so much sense to me:
| When Rushdie was attacked, I was reminded of the words of his friend Chris Hitchens when the threat on Rushdie's life was issued—words that have a much broader meaning at this moment in America's history: I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Rushdie survived the attack. Hopefully, America will. |
That's the title of my old yellow-with-age poetry book by Maxine Kumin. I just googled to make sure that she is still alive. Born in 1925. Yes! I am sure I have posted this poem before but that's a-ok. A fave.
Gallup’s global workplace report for 2022 showed that only 9% of workers in the UK were engaged or enthusiastic about their work, ranking 33rd out of 38 European countries. The NHS staff survey, conducted in the autumn of 2021, showed that morale had fallen from 6.1 out of 10 to 5.8, and staff engagement had dropped from 7.0 to 6.8.
“Since the pandemic, people’s relationship with work has been studied in many ways, and the literature typically, across the professions, would argue that, yes, people’s way of relating to their work has changed,” Kordowicz said.
TikTok posts about quiet quitting may have been inspired by Chinese social media: #TangPing, or lying flat, is a now-censored hashtag apparently prompted by China’s shrinking workforce and long-hours culture.
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