Great Substack posts by other authors

First to change anything is to know what needs changing

The ways of Substack keep changing. Last time I passed along a post by someone else I did it as a forward in what they called “a cross-connect,” but now it can’t be done that way. So that you are a well-informed body about where we are, which we need to be as a basis for dealing with where we can be, I thought these were outstanding, as is the post, below, that I recommended to both of them. I subscribe to all three of their Substacks and I recommend that you do, too.

It's Not Cool to Overreact
How wet streets cause rain

Enough Wealth to Warp the Universe
What can you buy for $348 billion?

I made this same comment to each of them:

I'm going to send this to my subscribers. Now, for you, I'm passing along what I just posted on Jared Yates Sexton's excellent post that's about where we came from that anchors us in where we are:

"Who is this 'we' that could be changing things? Ah, there's the rub. There is none. All that’s in play is gadflies like you and the other pundits who are clear about the mess we are in.

"Not only isn't there a 'we,' but no one is looking for one. I can attest to that because I’m looking. Don’t think that little old me thinks she has any power, but I do have the only ideas for what to do to create system change. That is, unless my offer of $100 to anyone who can direct me to any just hasn’t been seen by enough people to find anyone who would send me somewhere. And, even more dramatically, I've put $50K on the table for any project ideas I’d support or produce that possibly could change our worldview to where we unite, caring about each other as much as we care about ourselves. So far it hasn’t cost me anything.

"My offers still stand. Thanks for giving them the foundation from which we could rise up, where we-the-people would do an end run around government to create the next popular uprising that changes everything."

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