Idealism

But mostly changing the world is a matter of luck, not effort or brilliance or ambition.

Mette Marie Ivie in her substack Kicking and Screaming:

https://open.substack.com/pub/metteh/p/i-was-going-to-change-the-world?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ny8v

I gravitate towards writers who want something better for themselves and the world

https://open.substack.com/pub/aplaceforwriters/p/navel-gazing-a-space-for-outsiders

Are we idealists or pragmatists? Do we have principles we hold dear, and a vision for the future we want to create? Or are we fumbling along, tinkering, finding what works, and forever allowing contact with reality to rearrange our mental furniture, make a mess on our conceptual floor, and occasionally punch so many holes in the walls that need to

If you have ideals but you don't take responsibility for making a change in the world, you are working on your self-image, not a product for other people. If all you have is pragmatism, then you have speed but not a direction and the purpose of your work will get set by default to, at best, the same conventional things that everyone else is chasing