I've Been Thinking

Notes are one thing, but these articles are the real meat of Substack. Potatoes too.

I’ve been thinking for some time about how we human beings have been messing up the planet. It goes back as far as my childhood when I learned from my mother that a plastic toy would not decompose out in our back yard. It seemed to me that this was a potential problem. I couldn’t have been much more than three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday.

So, I sit here six decades later. I got used to the idea of not being able to recycle a lot of things and that they were headed to landfills or incinerators. It crosses my mind daily how my continuing existence on this planet is sending ripple effects out into the future. It is what it is, I suppose. The wheels of the economy turn. Yet, I am also aware that we are all responsible for the world we co-creating.

What of it?

My unaided brain says that I ought to take action to insure that many of us are thinking about it. I know of no better way than by saying it. I see us, collectively, distracting ourselves continually. We keep our nervous systems keyed up - outraged even - until we just shut down. Here I’m referring to the work of our formerly main-stream media. I call it “formerly” because I believe that we here, right here, on Substack are the media of the present and future.

If you are reading me, do you know how to hit “Restack?” or,. even better, “Restack with Note?” Do you know how to Subscribe? Do you know how to provide those of us accepting paying subscribers with a paid subscription? It’s not as intuitive as it might seem to me, so that is why I ask. You see, to be able to BE the change we want to see in the world, we need to use this platform as it is designed to be - a new “Economic Engine for Culture” - and culture is what we are building here.

Eris, the goddes of chaos, admiring Substack, an Economic Engine of Culture, from the entrance of the bunker.

The future beckons. We can transform this world. We can steer it in the ways we want our children to inherit. We can be good ancestors.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

What do you think? Let me hear from you!