Kindness

For a world in which aggression, control and variously domineering forms of persuasion and exploitation have been serially celebrated and canonised as virtuous – communicating the significance of humility and compassion takes on all the character and significance of an authentic act of kindness.

You are never simply stuck in bad traffic, you (and we all) precisely are the traffic jam of catastrophically disincentivised kindness and a conspicuously absent orientation towards peaceful conflict resolution. Fixing the problem that humanity represents for and to itself is a long project and patience appears as scarce as attention at the moment.

This message will inevitably be washed away in a waterfall of other words and unrestrained commercial, political or ideological (and other tribal) self-interests but perhaps this has always been the fate of messages cultivating kindness. I have spent a long time gazing into the abyss of confused complexity that humanity inhabits and I have reached a point where speaking truth to this catastrophe is about all that seems morally defensible, even if no one hears me.