I appreciate your words. And I’ve written, deeply, about my plans. About the two paths I see ahead. Most people don’t like them. Not because they’re wrong, but because they demand something we’ve spent decades learning how to avoid: Self-sacrifice.
One path is resistance. Real resistance. Not hashtags, not indignation, but the slow, grinding work of reclaiming power at every level, local, cultural, institutional. It means giving up comfort. Reputation. Safety. It means being willing to lose things.
The other path is exit. To leave this burning house and build something elsewhere, another system, another foundation, something that can outlast what’s coming. That, too, demands everything: money, energy, the willingness to walk away from familiarity and plant seeds you might not live to harvest.
Neither path is easy. Neither fits on a bumper sticker. But both require facing the fire instead of hoping it burns itself out.
We are well past the moment where we get to save everything. Now we choose what to save, and what we’re willing to give up to do it.
I appreciate your words. And I’ve written, deeply, about my plans. About the two paths I see ahead. Most people don’t like them. Not because they’re wrong, but because they demand something we’ve spent decades learning how to avoid: Self-sacrifice.
One path is resistance. Real resistance. Not hashtags, not indignation, but the slow, grinding work of reclaiming power at every level, local, cultural, institutional. It means giving up comfort. Reputation. Safety. It means being willing to lose things.
The other path is exit. To leave this burning house and build something elsewhere, another system, another foundation, something that can outlast what’s coming. That, too, demands everything: money, energy, the willingness to walk away from familiarity and plant seeds you might not live to harvest.
Neither path is easy. Neither fits on a bumper sticker. But both require facing the fire instead of hoping it burns itself out.
We are well past the moment where we get to save everything. Now we choose what to save, and what we’re willing to give up to do it.
Yes. I don't know a path forward, yet. I'll keep thinking. Peaceful refusal comes to mind.