Major guilty pleasure of mine is Aaron Sorkin, who once did a show called Newsroom about a large news broadcast project that, against all odds and incentives, doubles down on the duty of media elites to inform the public and so on. It’s either unbearably corny (insulting) or unbearably corny (affectionate) depending on who’s watching.
After the first broadcast of their re-invigorated show, the producer says
in the old days of like 10 minutes ago, we did the news well. You know how? We decided to.
I was thinking about this post and I got my streams crossed—the model of the JFK bit in my head accidentally inserted something like “we do this because we decide to”, and it worked really well! I find it motivating in the poetry sense to believe whatever illusion about agency or free will, especially at a collective level, that allows me to say “we are those who happened to step up” and flushing out any mention of reasons why we stepped up.
For some reason, “we decided to” is nearly as potent as defiance from solstice for me!
For an inspiring movie scene for the moment I’d go with Apollo 13. The nerdy engineers saving the mission by coming up with a kluge to fit the wrong shape and size charcoal CO2 scrubbers. A palpable payoff to the JFK inspirational speech.
Major guilty pleasure of mine is Aaron Sorkin, who once did a show called Newsroom about a large news broadcast project that, against all odds and incentives, doubles down on the duty of media elites to inform the public and so on. It’s either unbearably corny (insulting) or unbearably corny (affectionate) depending on who’s watching.
After the first broadcast of their re-invigorated show, the producer says
I was thinking about this post and I got my streams crossed—the model of the JFK bit in my head accidentally inserted something like “we do this because we decide to”, and it worked really well! I find it motivating in the poetry sense to believe whatever illusion about agency or free will, especially at a collective level, that allows me to say “we are those who happened to step up” and flushing out any mention of reasons why we stepped up.
For some reason, “we decided to” is nearly as potent as defiance from solstice for me!
For an inspiring movie scene for the moment I’d go with Apollo 13. The nerdy engineers saving the mission by coming up with a kluge to fit the wrong shape and size charcoal CO2 scrubbers. A palpable payoff to the JFK inspirational speech.
https://spacecenter.org/apollo-13-infographic-how-did-they-make-that-co2-scrubber/
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Thank you.
Thanks for the link. That call-and-response was beautiful.