Thank you for this. It took me awhile post-2016 to think through whether I was trying to be more politically active out of a sense of necessity/concern for the country, or because I so deeply enjoy being correct and feeling like I'm right. (Both to some extent, and I could go on a separate tangent on how school, in part, taught me to value being correct more than so many other, better things...)
I appreciate the language of building, too, because so often we use metaphors suggesting that argument is war ("battleground" state, for instance). It is good to think of construction and collaboration rather than destruction.
Thank you for this! I'm in Ottawa, and I've been especially grateful lately to have learned from your lessons on what types of organizing are actually impactful (and apparently doomscrolling isn't one of them???). But there's lots of good people here doing good work.
As someone who knows that basement well, I think it's worth it. For your reader certainly. Your ability to think strategically about social and political transformation, and apply humble, emotional truth to it is so rare. I need it. We need it. Keep going.
I currently have over 50 unopened emails from outlets like Aeon, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Sapiens in my "Magazines" email folder. Newsletters go there, too, and I get to it all when I can. But there are a few newsletters I open almost right away when I see them. Yours is one. So I guess I'm in the "don't really mind what your publishing schedule is" camp!
Thank you for this. It took me awhile post-2016 to think through whether I was trying to be more politically active out of a sense of necessity/concern for the country, or because I so deeply enjoy being correct and feeling like I'm right. (Both to some extent, and I could go on a separate tangent on how school, in part, taught me to value being correct more than so many other, better things...)
I appreciate the language of building, too, because so often we use metaphors suggesting that argument is war ("battleground" state, for instance). It is good to think of construction and collaboration rather than destruction.
Thank you for this! I'm in Ottawa, and I've been especially grateful lately to have learned from your lessons on what types of organizing are actually impactful (and apparently doomscrolling isn't one of them???). But there's lots of good people here doing good work.
As someone who knows that basement well, I think it's worth it. For your reader certainly. Your ability to think strategically about social and political transformation, and apply humble, emotional truth to it is so rare. I need it. We need it. Keep going.
Ah.... Thanks. Needed this :)
I currently have over 50 unopened emails from outlets like Aeon, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Sapiens in my "Magazines" email folder. Newsletters go there, too, and I get to it all when I can. But there are a few newsletters I open almost right away when I see them. Yours is one. So I guess I'm in the "don't really mind what your publishing schedule is" camp!