💡 inspo - caring is cool

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.

The problem is, of course, that you cannot simply decide to care about something. If you do not care about something, your will cannot simply establish a caring relationship to that thing. It is rather a question of being open to possibilities of caring

Fixing → Caring: I start by moving away from the techno-deterministic pull of the language around ‘fixing’ and instead urge the use of ‘caring’. When we foreground the idea of care, it inherently embodies ideas of fixing, building, making — everything necessary to-take-care-of that particular thing, person, tree, insect, bird, animal, us, them,... See more

I came to understand how love grows from care.

Will is the difference between believing and doing. It does not appear magically from nothing, but comes from living the knowledge that all beings of this earth are made of the same stuff, part of the same causally coherent system, and that no fundamental distinctions divide us. The will to care is not simply a choice, but our duty as parts of the... See more

Caring is an independent primary variable . You have to care first before agreeing or disagreeing can mean anything. And to do that you have to have a surplus capacity to care beyond caring about yourself, by working the “caring muscle.”