on navigating loss, death, decay, and extinction

death salience + unfazed resiliency that are unspoken drivers behind so many behaviors today.

Narrative depth resists the “more is more” logic of a society of spectacle. Narrative lives in lack and loss, what we choose to do with the time we have, how we spend our fleeting resources.

the great thing about living in a world of dying systems is that you are uniquely well-positioned to replace suboptimal systems with something superior. New growth takes root best in the decay of its predecessors. For most of the past, if you wanted to create a better future, you had to rally the troops and take someone else’s land or destroy exist