The End of Inevitability
People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Moments like these make me acutely aware of how far life has veered off the path that we imagined. And while life is always full of unexpected twists, the last decade feels like an unrelenting crescendo of crises. Climate disasters, political instability, wars, mass shootings, genocide—wave after relentless wave. Trump’s election in 2016 was a... See more
How Do You Plan for a Future That Might Not Exist?
So even if one were to cite inexorable improvement in the world’s only superpower and the land of the free, and in aggregate on a global basis, it would appear that progress does not have its own momentum. It is not fueled by the principles of the Enlightenment and oiled by the invisible hand of capitalism. It is a tentative and fragile state which
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