The best time to act was back then. Second best is now.
Time to make some lifestyle changes in keeping with a new story: public good (or luxury, if you prefer), private sufficiency. This flips on its head the previous story focused on private luxuries; no more playing the metaphorical slot machine to be one of the few that can have all that. A meaningful life can be had without playing that game.
If you're a keep-up-with-the-Jones' type, review your actions and consider unhooking those compulsions.
If you're like me and hyper-focused on particular hobbies, consider assessing the embodied energy, the opportunity cost, and other, lower-impact hobbies from which you might derive the same benefit.
If not already familiar, look up mutual aid, participatory democracy, and go out and talk with your neighbors; these are people you'll be helping recover from whatever stressor is next (and perhaps the ongoing ones), and reciprocally so, them for you.
I don't have all the answers, ell oh ell, these are just things that I'm choosing to do and which are working well for a subset of people in my neighborhood.
What else do you suggest for the next chapter of the human story?
The best time to act was back then. Second best is now.
Time to make some lifestyle changes in keeping with a new story: public good (or luxury, if you prefer), private sufficiency. This flips on its head the previous story focused on private luxuries; no more playing the metaphorical slot machine to be one of the few that can have all that. A meaningful life can be had without playing that game.
If you're a keep-up-with-the-Jones' type, review your actions and consider unhooking those compulsions.
If you're like me and hyper-focused on particular hobbies, consider assessing the embodied energy, the opportunity cost, and other, lower-impact hobbies from which you might derive the same benefit.
If not already familiar, look up mutual aid, participatory democracy, and go out and talk with your neighbors; these are people you'll be helping recover from whatever stressor is next (and perhaps the ongoing ones), and reciprocally so, them for you.
I don't have all the answers, ell oh ell, these are just things that I'm choosing to do and which are working well for a subset of people in my neighborhood.
What else do you suggest for the next chapter of the human story?