1/ We don’t lack the geniuses or ideas or best practices that represent alternatives to the self-destructive ways we’re behaving now. We could do medicine differently, agriculture differently, education differently, economics differently, criminal justice differently…
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2/…peace building differently, politics differently, pretty much everything differently. The problem is not that we don’t know how. The problem is institutional resistance on the part of a political and economic elite to any fundamental change in the way we’re doing things now.
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3/ Just knowing that, being aware of it at the depths we need to be aware of it, should inspire all of us to buy in a little less to the propaganda of officialdom. To do whatever we can on any given day to embrace the new and prepare for the day when all of this is going to flip.
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4/ And it will. The arc is bending as we speak.

Aug 26, 2021 · 4:59 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
I hope you are right and it stays that way. Chronic sabotage and destruction doesn’t go without costing us a major toll on every aspect of our psyches.
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The breakdown of democracy is happening now & I’m certainly not naïve about how hard this road is. I don’t think anyone thinks any of this is easy or is going to be easy in the days ahead. We need to psychologically orient ourselves to that & try to be kind while it’s happening.
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