Megan, this is excellent. I keep coming back to certain sentences over and over. One thought that occurs to me is this: many of us, in this country, lead pretty comfortable lives. Even though gas is terribly expensive, even though the cost of food and education rises, even as our privacy erodes, it all happens at a pace we can tolerate and (for the moment) adapt to. Meaningful change on our parts- willfully stepping out of and unplugging from the system- will cause discomfort, here and now. I don’t have an answer- I’m not even entirely sure of my question- but maybe it’s “what am I willing to give up or do differently that will be uncomfortable now, so that I can be part of pulling us back from disaster in the future?”
Anyway. I really enjoyed your thoughts here. Thank you.❤️
News and a letter I needed. Thank you, Megan. And this, What Dan’s book captures, so quietly and precisely, is that change does not arrive fully formed. It emerges unevenly, hyper-locally, often through small acts of attention and insistence—through people willing to imagine a different structure for the world, even when the larger system resists it. Yes!
A lucky night in Vermont!
Megan, this is excellent. I keep coming back to certain sentences over and over. One thought that occurs to me is this: many of us, in this country, lead pretty comfortable lives. Even though gas is terribly expensive, even though the cost of food and education rises, even as our privacy erodes, it all happens at a pace we can tolerate and (for the moment) adapt to. Meaningful change on our parts- willfully stepping out of and unplugging from the system- will cause discomfort, here and now. I don’t have an answer- I’m not even entirely sure of my question- but maybe it’s “what am I willing to give up or do differently that will be uncomfortable now, so that I can be part of pulling us back from disaster in the future?”
Anyway. I really enjoyed your thoughts here. Thank you.❤️
News and a letter I needed. Thank you, Megan. And this, What Dan’s book captures, so quietly and precisely, is that change does not arrive fully formed. It emerges unevenly, hyper-locally, often through small acts of attention and insistence—through people willing to imagine a different structure for the world, even when the larger system resists it. Yes!
Thanks for this. xo.