End the Horror, Let the Crisis Change You
For Scranton, “The choice is a clear one”: We can get “more and more desperately invested in a life we can’t sustain. Or we can learn to see each day as the death of what came before, freeing ourselves to deal with whatever problems the present offers without attachment or fear.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Collectively, we’re going through something like a death, in which over-abstraction is crashing into physical reality. The liberal world order is gone, and across multiple domains, from education and economics to immigration policy and climate change, we’re wrestling with what it means to let go of ideas about what should be and face what is.