Thanks for the heads up. Makes just as much sense to call them "people who put the rules above the intention of the rules" since that's the behavior I am trying to highlight.

It's a very big world, it turns out, and there are lots of people walking alone who are eager to find their tribe.

Thanks for coming to my Bluesky TEDx Talk.

Like a muscle, the tearing down can lead to greater strength if time and energy are given to recovery.

It doesn't take anything more than allowing yourself to be human with other humans. You'll find your group, and if you lose them, there are many other groups.

The Work Of Making It What It Should Be is sometimes reminiscent of the Good Life. There will be conflicts and arguments and hurt feelings. There will also be apologies and reconciliations and restorations.

Start a garden in the spring, assign different herbs and vegetables to different places as appropriate, and share in the harvest together. Help look after each other's kids and help move each other's furniture. Play D&D together.

This is how you form the real Avengers.

Draw in 10-20 people who can be established as trustworthy. If you're sober, go to meetings. Make great effort to meet regularly. Eat food together, talk about your fears and how you're handling them(or not handling them). Encourage one another to persevere.

save the world as we have seen modeled in all kinds of media. This illusion can debilitate us into inaction. But there is a different lesson to apply here: the answer isn't individual acheivement, but instead communal cohesion.

The correct response to impending fascism is to start a supper club.

I sacrifice time progressing toward the latter.

If your pattern recognition is giving you bad signals about the world, recognize that sometimes we fall prey to the illusion that the answer is our singular and monumental effort to heroically act and

Whether it’s big stuff like politics or religion or something as seemingly innocent as veganism, some people just can’t get past having moral absolutes by which to judge the people they like as good and the people they dislike as bad.

Was going to say the same. Glad to see them out.