From this perspective, it makes no sense to judge your activities by the unreachable standards of a god, nor to fault yourself for having only a minuscule impact on the whole. There’s no reason to see ‘getting on top of things’ as the target of your endeavors in the first place – and still less to imagine that you might manage to obtain a sense of security regarding the crises engulfing the planet, which will doubtless continue to engulf it long after you’re gone. Instead, you get to pour yourself into tasks that matter for no other reason than that nothing could be more enlivening, or more
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