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2544. Thoughts on the darkest future.

Douglass Carmichael
Apr 20, 2022
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How ro handle the darkest thoughts about the future.

First, we really don’t know what will happen and our own role in it.

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First, it’s OK to lose. We all are going to lose anyway, only the timing is unknown.

Second. I am. reminded of a thought that used to be common. “When in doubt, sweep the temple. “ If we don’t know what to do, at lest clean up. It makes the environment much easier for those who just might come up with a good idea.

My own strategy is to have a meaningful goal, in my case Gardenworld, a low tech mix of food and habitat in gardens and shelter as attractive as we can make it think of Italian hill towns. Much says this can’t happen, but let’s try.

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