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 don’t need to “save the world”; it’s already made other plans.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
You are part of the system, and you need, we all need, to change that system. Nothing less than systemic change will save us.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Both versions are defeatist because they are static. What’s missing from these two ways of telling is an ability to recognize a situation in which you are traveling and have not arrived, in which you have cause both to celebrate and fight, in which the world is always being made
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
What startled me about the response to disaster was not the virtue, since virtue is often the result of diligence and dutifulness, but the passionate joy that shined out from accounts by people who had barely survived. These people who had lost everything, who were living in rubble or ruins, had found agency, meaning, community, immediacy in their
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the cultivation of joy as a form of sustenance and a means of rebellion.