Things aren’t going to get better on their own. What we need is a clear, concrete, accessible, realistic, practical, collective, unifying, commonsense plan.

We need to deal with the apathy, cynicism, scapegoating, and despair that results from living in this kind of environment for so long.

We need to understand why our old institutions aren’t coping with this new, modern world.

If we really want to achieve our goals, we have to work within the boundaries of how things actually work.

It’s hard to juggle taking care of yourself and making the world a better place at the same time. We need to make sure we get the balance right.

We don’t have a problem with the will or the desire to change. We have a problem with turning that desire into effective action.

We’re one, global people, folks. And it’s time we started acting like it.

We’ve shattered what should be one common project of figuring stuff out into a million specialized pieces, and pitted them all against each other.

We need to be working together in large numbers, as part of a coordinated effort. That’s the only way we’re really going to get rapid, peaceful progress.

We’re going to have to figure out how to get our institutions to work for us, instead of the political and economic elites they currently work for.

When people get together and try to make change happen, there’s a pretty consistent set of obstacles they have to overcome.