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I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
I really appreciated the Get In The Van post, and my inner Kantian immediately turned it categorical.
What should I be doing to make more GITV things happen? I think the obvious thing is 'drive more vans' or something like that.
Maybe a simpler/smaller thing is host most things where there is the opportunity for people who don't know each other to meet.
(I'm a pretty big proponent of the social value creation of hosting gatherings -- and the addition of the possibility of GITV moments seems to be another point in its favor)