Reasons to keep going

[redbird]

I just left this comment over at the Second Avenue Sagas transit blog (in response to a post about "back to the new normal").


Assuming for the moment that humanity survives the next few years, policy matters, and transportation in the largest city in the United States matters.

My old Cold War fears are back, but our country and species got through 1946 through 1990 by assuming that the nukes wouldn’t go off today, so we would teach our children to do algebra, and cook dinner, and plant trees, and so on. And if that assumption now proves false, we’ll still have lost nothing by maintaining the train cars, planting crops, and all the other billion activities that make up our complex civilization.

Self-care is a radical act, and so is the much larger task of healing the world.

[Footnote: I moved out of New York City in 2013, but I still read a blog about the NY transit system.]

Comments

[bibliofile]

Self-care is a radical act, and so is the much larger task of healing the world.

Yes, especially this.

[zirconium]

Agreed. Thank you.

(Here via dichroic's blog.)

[coth.livejournal.com]

Indeed. You must live and work as if there is a future, and can do immense harm very quickly by doing otherwise.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Reasons to keep going. :)

*hugs you*

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

That's how we're getting through this - "Before the apocalypse: chop wood, carry water. After the apocalypse: chop wood, carry water."

-Nameseeker