Sustained communities, not moments, ignite people's best selves. [speculation]
The question I am left with is not the one I hear so frequently about her: How did a person like that turn into a person like this? But: What kind of system is most likely to light up the best parts of all of us—and sustain the fire beyond a protest, or a summer uprising, or a presidential campaign?
SEED: Could spark an essay on designing systems and institutions that sustain collective engagement beyond initial energy spikes.
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 1103