Greta's "Strange Eyes"
Originally published November 20 Reading the sympathetic discussion of the documentary: I Am Greta, on CounterPunch this morning, I was brought up short by this: " For 90 minutes we live in Thunberg’s shoes, we see the world through her strange eyes. For 90 minutes we are allowed to live inside the head of someone so sane that we can briefly grasp – if we are open to her world – quite how insane each of us truly is. We see ourselves from the outside, through the vision of someone whose Asperger’s has allowed her to “see through the static”, as she too generously terms our delusions. She is the small, still centre of simple awareness buffeted in a sea of insanity. "