David Roberts

My place was never in this world. I sought and longed for something I could not quite name. But in you, I found it. To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love

Elizabeth Harlander

WHO I AM.

A life-long love of dogs, bikes, planes. A photography and Photoshop nerd. I shot a lot of material from my life in Southeast Asia; these days I'll shoot just about anything I can be creative with. An academic who loves teaching but resists the neoliberal university’s priorities and will soon retire, to ride across Canada on a motorbike and fly vintage jet fighters.

I am lucky enough to have a best friend who I know I can rely on, absolutely and unconditionally, and that's a rare feeling in a febrile, unhinged world. I have a warm house, an old dog, a great bike and enough good health. I prefer winter to summer, cold to hot, remote to urban and Indonesian to Indian curries.

I've lived and worked in places at war and places at peace and I miss places that are radically different from modernity. I think the world has come undone because powerful, callous, emotionally emaciated men dominate and manipulate resources and vulnerabilities. They are abetted and enabled by a political elite composed of dangerous, crass, entitled, arrogant 'overgrown infants', to pinch Roger Waters’ phrase, and their media underlings who between them control access to the levers of power and change.

It is because of this that I believe that change can only come through many, probably violent, revolutions. I believe this because I believe Freire and Fanon and Malcolm X when they declare that only the oppressed understand their oppression, and only they will free themselves from it, 'by any means necessary'.