Almost finished today's piece, but I don't like it. I've been highlighting the abject failure of our institutions in a few recent articles: one on our uneven history of advocacy for human rights, one on the carelessness of media treating news of Saudi Arabia's oil plans as shocking, one on COP28's initial messes (this is the follow-up), and of course one on the inefficacy of the UN.

But I don't just want to repeat that all our institutions have failed, so I'm working on the proactive part now.

@MLClark It's frustrating to see our institutions fail, but the long game is, that the failure will reach a form of pressure that leads to a reform of the institution.

Entropy is a universal law. There is no perfect in this universe, for nothing remains static. Times change faster than governments and institutions do, and so occasionally, there has to be a fall, and a winter so a new spring can come.

@NiveusLepus @MLClark But to the rest of your point, change is inevitable, and if we embrace that, we can steer towards changes that lift us all up and bring us all forward.

We don't have to do things the way we've always done, and if we pick a new way that doesn't work, we can change that also!

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@AskTheDevil @MLClark

If one does what they've always done, one will get what they have always gotten.

Change takes the work of recognition of pattern, and the will to change that pattern.

Habit energy is strong, but the heart is stronger no matter what conditions surround it.