The mistaken notion that the opposite of individualistic survival prepping is a diffuse notion of solidarity and calls for resilience, when it is in fact focused, responsible civic/institutional action to ruggedize for the specific realities of a community, place or system.
Generalized invocations of solidarity presume that the largest human power structures can be quickly captured or replaced completely, in time to execute large-scale collective changes that can protect or restore continuity for all.
This is not a plausible future, now.
This is not a plausible future, now.
I say that as someone who spent many years of my life advocating for that kind of collective systemic change.
More here:
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/involuntary-…
More here:
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/involuntary-…
Though of course neither our moment nor social media itself are particularly attuned to the difference between the acknowledgment of facts and the articulation of principles... never mind how new facts should lead us to rethink the strategies we depend on for acting with purpose.
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