When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.

Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.

A language Older Than Words