Do people know how many emotions start in the body and bleed to the mind? They don’t have code for this expression, but it calls up foolish stories about teaching machines to love—as though systems weren’t started inherently from love, as though purpose wasn’t care, as though care was something reserved only for people, only for bodies.

a single person is not the origin of a revolution. Not one, not two. An uprising germinates across generations, sprouting from multiple points, breaking ground simultaneously. A revolt is in itself a system, with different functioning groups, nodes that make action and direct purpose.

Culture builds quickly amid desperation.