https://cassidysteeledale.substack.com/p/the-spirit-of-the-twenty-first-century

Wow. A stupid essay about stupid comics that’s making me cry.

«And a reminder that — in the real world — crises create energy for change among people who refuse to let emergencies and danger or brokenness rule the world any more.

And they’re a way to remind you that you were formed from the lessons and the final morals of the last century — the first really great one, the one that gave more-than-half-of-humanity and even-more-than-that their first real chance in the history of this world — and that we will make this century better than the last rather than let these shitgibbons write its story and make its future.

Crises aren’t just danger and death and doom; they’re energy for What Could Be. They’re dynamos.

But if you need the math on that, the formula is simple:

    The size of these enormous overlapping nonstop crises multiplied by the size of your rage and the size of your love and your brilliance are the size of the change we are about to make.

And by now — after all this and how much it’s spun us up in the dynamo — we are made of lightning.»

(Cassidy Dale is worth a follow. I may have mentioned that before.)