Have spent a lot time lately w/ folks who are a) building things b) chasing new intellectual threads or reviving lost ones c) intentionally building communities.
Amazing how alien the “everything is declining” narrative seems when you know where to look for the opposite. 
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In other words: the decline is CANCELLED
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Replying to @_TamaraWinter
I would like to believe this! I definitely see a lot of enthusiastic young people making groups and whatnot, but, these initiatives usually look deeply misguided to a fogey like myself. I still am generally optimistic, but it's more like, the optimism that a small number of
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
Offer guidance when/where you can! Noticed one reason these efforts tend to fail (although I’m feeling pretty good about my dinner group tbh) is a lack of intergenerational knowledge/support. It’s likely that I, at 24, don’t know everything there is to know about er, anything.
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