Robert Landsberg
Robert Landsberg. I was thinking about him this morning. How he was photographing St Helens when it erupted. He continued taking pictures, and then realized he was going be overtaken by the pyroclastic flow. So he rewound his film, put it in his backpack, and then covered the backpack with his body, protecting the film from the volcanos onslaught. The film was recovered, and was an invaluable tool for volcanologists. I’m thinking about him because of the overwhelming shame and frustration people are feeling because they can’t, or won’t take actual action against what is happening. Believe me, this is not to judge. There are many things that have conditioned us to only speak out, an action in itself. But that can be so easily lost in this overwhelm of voices speaking at once. And even then, only the popular ones- hell, I have one follower (hey Daniel). There’s also the fact that the political system was se...