Resistance loves distraction – there are so  many other things to think about, read about, talk about rather than sit down at the page and write something useful.  But one anti-resistance trick is to write a little bit about resistance, at least that gets all my fingers on the keyboard at the same time and pulls me towards getting some thinking flowing in a unified direction.  So in case any of them haven’t occurred to you and you’d like to  pick them  up yourself, my current distractions are (in just any old order):

• Donald Trump and the US Election;
• The referendum – the manipulation of national discourse (because this is what the whole thing is really it seems to me – one big exercise in distraction and misdirection, and we’ve fallen for it.);
• A political assassination in the UK;
• Those people who are going to vote for D Trump and Brexit and how different they are from anyone I think I know;
• Impending doom;
• TheDAO and people’s reaction to it going tits up;
• The weather, although today’s been quite nice most of the time;
• My weight, health, baldness, beard-length;
• Preacher and Halt & Catch Fire plus the dearth of anything good on Netflix;
• Weariness over the effort it takes to get paid sometimes;
• Not having done the washing up yet;
• Wondering… about stuff…
• Worrying about what this list reveals about me.

OK.  Let’s see if that helped.