I am grateful to Substack for exposing me to your particular organic consciousness. I am a food systems thinker who teaches “Eat like a planet, Think like a microbe” You make my job of ‘splainin’ what I mean by that so much easier.
Jason, what a fantastic piece. So full of gold that I know I will have missed parts, so this is one of those rare essays that I'll enjoy reading again and again. I recently purchased a loupe (on the advice of the great Bryan Pfeiffer) and I'm a bit obsessed with it, I want to look at everything through it, seeing it in finer, more complete, detail. If I could use it to read this essay without giving myself an extraordinary headache, I would.
"We need the right blocks, and the right kindergarten. And we need time, time we may not have." Oof, what a truth to have to sit with...
Since I tend to read quickly, last night I read this quickly. Since I always value your thoughts, this morning I walked slowly through your essay, dropping my philosophical baggage at the trailhead. Looking at each tree, feet on the pine needle floor, no sounds of any human manufacture- just the forest of your thoughts filled with birdsong.
For the first time I think I glimpsed your organic worldview and why you and I often are in concert and where we sometimes see the same valley but different hilltops. Love and Compassion, Telos and Anarchos, Time and Timelessness.
This was a challenging essay. I think I should walk through it again though the trail is steep at times, the forest is filled with life and gives life. What vast beauty emerges from those three words on a scrap of paper!
Thank you Jason,
I am grateful to Substack for exposing me to your particular organic consciousness. I am a food systems thinker who teaches “Eat like a planet, Think like a microbe” You make my job of ‘splainin’ what I mean by that so much easier.
Jason, what a fantastic piece. So full of gold that I know I will have missed parts, so this is one of those rare essays that I'll enjoy reading again and again. I recently purchased a loupe (on the advice of the great Bryan Pfeiffer) and I'm a bit obsessed with it, I want to look at everything through it, seeing it in finer, more complete, detail. If I could use it to read this essay without giving myself an extraordinary headache, I would.
"We need the right blocks, and the right kindergarten. And we need time, time we may not have." Oof, what a truth to have to sit with...
Nice! Agree 100%. I just wrote a similar perspective essay I will post for you called the Polarity of Progress.
Since I tend to read quickly, last night I read this quickly. Since I always value your thoughts, this morning I walked slowly through your essay, dropping my philosophical baggage at the trailhead. Looking at each tree, feet on the pine needle floor, no sounds of any human manufacture- just the forest of your thoughts filled with birdsong.
For the first time I think I glimpsed your organic worldview and why you and I often are in concert and where we sometimes see the same valley but different hilltops. Love and Compassion, Telos and Anarchos, Time and Timelessness.
This was a challenging essay. I think I should walk through it again though the trail is steep at times, the forest is filled with life and gives life. What vast beauty emerges from those three words on a scrap of paper!