Recent content by psychovertical

I don't know who you are, what you do, or your age, but if I could give you one piece of advice that could really help you in the rest of your life, it's this (there is a 99.9% you ignore this, and just reply with some glib comment, and even if you do, this is in good faith from me, so think...

Yvon Chouinard told me it was.

Not some, but the majority (or at least 51%).

Define anti-establishment. Do you mean voting for Reform, being openly Christian, supporting Trump, being against the war in Ukraine? I fear that the establishment and the 'system' define what is anti-establishment these days. To be a modern revolutionary, you have to be a counter-revolutionary.

The issue, Will, is that I'm able to admit you're 50% right in what you write (most people are half right), but I think you're too afraid to admit - in good faith - that so am I. Instead, what you're doing is performative writing, it's all dead words, demonstrating to everyone else you're like...

When people keep it to themselves or are told to shut up, they just harbour a grudge and get their own back at the ballot box, even if it's self-destructive (we humans have a real passion for martyrdom). I think classical journalism served the function of acting as the voice of 'the people' and...

Climbing and climbers have changed over my lifetime and I expect the last bastion of what it once was (which was counter-culture, anti-status quo etc) might be found in caving (maybe?), maybe due to the sport being a hard sell for lifestyle marketeers (as are cavers). As for class, although...

In a nutshell, circa 2014: the threat to Liberal values from Islamism (I'm the only islamophobe who moved to an Islamic country), and that ignoring the impact of mass immigration would lead to the rise of the far right in Europe, as it would the working classes who would do the heavy lifting of...

Define crankery and conspiracism.

No book out; I was just sitting in a coffee shop and was naive and wasteful enough to post something to see if I got something back, but it's just red meat.

I think, in the end, real authenticity in the 21st century might be seeking anti-fame and anti-attention, losing all your followers and fans, rejecting the demand to be popular, making yourself into a brand, and to always be closing in all you do. Also, what would the world be like without...

I left the UK ten years ago, but looking in from the outside, it's comments like this and the people who make them: glib, complacent, and unreflective that have always kept you down.

Hi UKB types, Andy 'edge lord' Kirkpatrick here. For some reason, I've started getting activity posts from UKB, which have started to pop up at the same time as someone asked me to do a podcast on the subject of authenticity. The two things seem related, and although it might be more fitting to...