Ever since the phrase, "You can just do things" hit the online ecosystem, it has troubled me, in large part because it gives the promise that "fixing" everything would be easy if we just had the will.
You are certainly more pessimistic than I am or I think you should be. But your point commendable. I am reminded of the indomitable Robert Moses, the ultimate solution man. He eventually met his Jane Jacobs. Sometimes the chaos, the mess, the age, is preferable to the clean solution. The meek will inherit an earth built by faithful autodidacts.
Yeah, I agree. It's the modes of collapse and the nature of their triggers that now occupies me, including extending the runway.
You will also like this piece I think. https://www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/p/there-is-no-fixing-what-is-wrong
You are certainly more pessimistic than I am or I think you should be. But your point commendable. I am reminded of the indomitable Robert Moses, the ultimate solution man. He eventually met his Jane Jacobs. Sometimes the chaos, the mess, the age, is preferable to the clean solution. The meek will inherit an earth built by faithful autodidacts.
I prefer “realist.”