About Diane Engelhardt
So, what’s this all about?
More important than who I am—a retired ESL teacher in Canada whose first love has always been writing—is why I'm writing on Substack.
From following Caitlin Johnstone, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate and Matt Taibbi, I've discovered Substack to be a far better platform to share thoughts about what's going on in the world than Facebook where cute puppies and kittens and banal questions (Do you like picked beets? ) get more attention than pressing social and political issues or Twitter/X where people tend to spew, spout off and argue. Also, as far as I can see, the world has devolved rapidly from stupid during the COVID-19 pandemic to crazy with the war between Ukraine and Russia, and now totally insane with Israel's homicidal assault on Gaza, climate change notwithstanding. Humanity is being severely put to the test, and we need desperately, urgently to figure out how on earth we human beings will get out of the messes we have created.