I would like all these fundraising experts to look around them. Everything is burning down. Many of the issues we’ve been tackling have worsened significantly. The earth is rapidly becoming uninhabitable. The basic rights our predecessors fought for—reproductive rights, voting, marriage equality, etc.—are quickly being reversed while fascism... See more
But as I explore autumn’s paradox of dying and seeding, I feel the power of metaphor. In the autumnal events of my own experience, I am easily fixated on surface appearances—on the decline of meaning, the decay of relationships, the death of a work.
A peculiar part of the Microwave Economy is that wealthy people aren’t immune to it. Escaping the Microwave Economy has little to do with money. You can buy flashy, but you can’t buy meaningful.