Make Your Damn Bed

Doomerism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don't think there's hope, you won't take the action towards a more hopeful future. It's in our best interests to become the "right" kind of optimists. T...

16 Jan 20257min

"In an era whose sense of the human psyche is dominated by entertainment and consumerism and by therapy culture—the personal and private are most often emphasized to the exclusion of almost everything...

15 Jan 202510min

"If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way" - Rebecca SolnitBuy the Book: http://rebecc...

14 Jan 20259min

Contrary to widespread belief, there is not an increase in crime after disasters. In fact, the opposite is true. After every disaster, there is an increase in prosocial behavior. These myths perpetuat...

13 Jan 20258min

Hypernormalization: Pretending everything is fine, when it is obviously NOT fine. The goal is to keep us overwhelmed and confused and disengaged. Resist your apathy. Resist in any way you can. Join a ...

12 Jan 20259min

"The constant generation of novel and fantastic apocalyptic scenarios serves to extend the horizon for the arrival of the hellish conditions contained in dystopia - if oppression is a nebulous but eve...

11 Jan 202510min

The dystopia isn’t coming, it’s been here, and we’re finally starting to see it. Fictional dystopias are not imaginative horrors - they are reframed versions of lived experiences for marginalized comm...

10 Jan 20259min

"We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest." - Tim WuTHE SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyr...

9 Jan 20257min