Collapse is Not a Broken Machine

On the Limits of Fixing and the Work of Tending

We keep asking for solutions as if collapse were a broken machine.

As if there were a missing part we have not yet invented, a lever still undiscovered, a brilliance waiting somewhere ahead of us in time. We speak of fixes and pathways and innovations, and we mean well. We are trying to stay alive. We are trying to protect what we love. There is care ins…