The great displacements are always socio economic and we're seeing both of them now (within and out of the US) and, yes, people are leaving the US but I sense that people are rethinking North America, even Canada, because something has gone wrong. It's just more obvious in the US and, of course, louder. Add climate to this equation, and people from "stable" countries are going to be on the move a lot.
Burdenmaxxing as identity is the most precise framing I’ve read for what’s happening to women specifically around beauty and the body. The cost of staying thin, staying young, staying quiet, we’ve accepted those burdens so completely we experience them as self-improvement. The carbon footprint trick, but for your face.
Last night I took my kids to see “the magic faraway tree” and was really blown away at the new ideologies placed in front of us, in film. All the things you speak about here, burdenmaxxing, disaster, new social contracts… the power of film will confirm these ideas as realities for our kids, and the child within us.
The great displacements are always socio economic and we're seeing both of them now (within and out of the US) and, yes, people are leaving the US but I sense that people are rethinking North America, even Canada, because something has gone wrong. It's just more obvious in the US and, of course, louder. Add climate to this equation, and people from "stable" countries are going to be on the move a lot.
Burdenmaxxing as identity is the most precise framing I’ve read for what’s happening to women specifically around beauty and the body. The cost of staying thin, staying young, staying quiet, we’ve accepted those burdens so completely we experience them as self-improvement. The carbon footprint trick, but for your face.
Last night I took my kids to see “the magic faraway tree” and was really blown away at the new ideologies placed in front of us, in film. All the things you speak about here, burdenmaxxing, disaster, new social contracts… the power of film will confirm these ideas as realities for our kids, and the child within us.
Those last three paragraphs put tears in my eyes 🥹