They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.
Rebecca Solnit/joy is a strategyx.comThey want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.
You think defeat is inevitable?
Have a little faith in yourself and your fellow man. We all slip, but not everyone bows to Moloch.
Conor White-Sullivan šššŗšøtwitter.comāEverything is on fire,
but everyone I love is doing beautiful things
and trying to make life worth living,
and I know I donāt have to believe in everything,
but I believe in that.ā
ā Nikita Gill
But here's the thing: The problems you cared aboutāHIV prevention, conflict zones, global inequality, climate changeāthey're not going anywhere. And neither is your ability to make a difference.
Annelise Riles (@anneliseriles)
A piece for all hard times - Rebecca Solnit
... See moreThey want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving. You may need to grieve
And it may be that the only real antidote to the insanity of our times, to this planet-wide storm system of helplessness and disorientation, is to resist with everything weāve got the belief that our story is finished, that we and our organizing principles are the final word of this universe