Maybe this year will be better than the last
Weekly Lynx
Happy New Year! Morbid symptoms are seemingly everywhere you look these days, but I am feeling cautiously optimistic about 2022 after a couple of terrible years. As Mariame Kaba says, hope is a discipline.
There is much to be hopeful about in Chile right now as they prepare to draft a new constitution—thanks to a massive social rebellion—with the climate and ecological crisis front and center and a millennial socialist as president. Meanwhile, here in the country largely responsible for Chile’s decades of brutal dictatorship and neoliberalism, we still have a terrible constitution that appears to be headed towards a crisis. It is hard to imagine right now, but if we play our cards right maybe we can follow Chile’s lead and write a new one, too.
An Arkansas school district in a very conservative area combined solar panels, retrofits, and increased teacher pay. This is a cool story and a glimmer of possibility—imagine if we did this everywhere, bigger, and better…
I enjoyed this wide-ranging political and philosophical discussion of The Matrix Resurrections on the Hit Factory Podcast with Aaron Thorpe.
Outstanding longread: The Lost Forest Gardens of Europe
