Nate Hagens

This is now a downhill roll.

It does not require any conspiracies or villains.

It merely requires people being afraid and leaders responding to fear the way leaders have responded to fear for thousands of years.

Consolidation, control, surveillance, walls.

Economic contraction combined with cooperative geopolitics and broadly shared power is

That's possible.

That's uphill from where we are.

It requires people to trust each other during precisely the period when trust is hardest to sustain.

It requires leaders to share power when the incentives to consolidate are strong.

um it also will require communities to coordinate when coordination is the most expensive and tiring and difficult but and at the core of the work of the great simplification

And our outreach and the information and the community uphill does not mean impossible.

Plenty of things in nature are uphill and they happen all the time.

Every living cell in your body has succeeded in an uphill project.

Salmon spend their adult life swimming against the current to spawn.

A redwood tree in California spends centuries pulling water hundreds of feet up against gravity.

So this landscape metaphor doesn't tell us that the climb cannot be done.

It just informs us that the climb has costs.

And also, what happens if we stop before we've reached a more stable resting place on the other side?

We slide back.

And this is true at every scale, your personal health, your relationships, your community, national and international governance.