To be active citizens worthy of our mandate, we need to not just react to the things in front of us but to find the time to reflect and question our own place in the story
As 2024 approaches end of days, I’m taking comfort in a piece of old technology called a book. I’m not sure it’s a great book but it’s got me thinking about how we might make sense of the cascading crises engulfing our world.
The year closes with way too little action on climate, Trump surfing division back into the White House, global instability boiling over and the totalitarian march of big tech. As we scroll through the doom it’s hard not to conclude history has taken the wrong path.