Freedom Actions
Care first. Then conversation. Notice what’s needed.
How do we do this?
“We sometimes think of freedom as impulse. You're just doing exactly what you feel like at a given moment, and you're free. I think that freedom is the moral choices that you make. Freedom is also that you know what you have to do because you know who you are.”
—Timothy Snyder
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Recommended Resources:
Books
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom, Crown, 2024
David Graeber & David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything-A New History of Humanity, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, 2001
Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless, Penguin Random House, 2018
Substacks
Letters from an American
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Thinking About…
Strength In Numbers
The Existentialist Republic
Join or Die: https://www.joinordiefilm.com/
This documentary examines social scientist Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" theory of how declining community engagement created an American civic crisis.
“More people bowl in America than vote!”
Movies & Videos
Attention changes what’s possible.
This is where noticing begins.