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Chad Hazzard's avatar

This is….. brilliant and beautiful.

Everything I read today seems to fold back to a quote that I heard last night:

“I heard this in a Gabor Mate speech I was listening to tonight, and it is sticking with me:

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, (of healing the world,) but neither are you free to abandon it" ("Pirkei Avot" 2:16).

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Margi Prideaux, PhD's avatar

Full agreement, in many layers. You (Mike) and I would vote for different politics (if we were in the same country), and yet I easily find truth in your writing. You reveal things I intuit (about human tech agendas) but lack the insider awareness to articulate in detail. I appreciate those essays for the knowledge. But this—your penetrative look at the essence of humanity—is always exquisitely clear. I appreciate these essays even more.

There is far more in common between people than difference, and relearning how to see that, embrace that, is the most important work of the current generation.

Your laser focus is, understandably, on the cruel collapse of democracy at the hands of tech-facists. Mine is, understandably, on the collapse of communities at the ragged edge of climate chaos, especially rural communties who shepherd and provide the food, fibre, and biodiversiry that keep cities alive. Communities who already feel the devastating wave of climate-driven changes.

Both our focus communities need people to come together despite difference, to build trust, to learn across old divides, and share in the creation of meaning.

Keep writing. Please. Your words have power.

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