Focusing on Issues
In times of crisis it is easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of outrages that call for your attention. Pick your issue. Pick the corner of the world that you are going to defend and fight for that. If you try to fight everything all the time, you will burn out real fast. evacide: Hachyderm.io
Eva's thoughts on this coincide a lot with my perspective on benign indifference.
- 20 Lessons from the 20th Century by Timothy Snyder
- Ricki Tarr: If you truly believe that all people deserve basic civil rights, and want to work towards that goal, I want to be your friend. We can argue semantics later, but reduce harm now.
Hope and Optimism
In 2025 the biggest superpower will be the ability to be hopeful and optimistic. Not as a way of avoiding the hard stuff, but in the sense of knowing that change is possible, that nationalism and tribalism can be defeated, and that dystopia is not a preordained fate.Ben Werdmuller