28 December

Ideas matter more than anything. I haven’t seen a ‘cause’ that isn’t just a sloppy generalisation. Like this one - the idea that peace is a choice, and that conflict is bad. Hashtag activism does this all the time, #metoo for example wallows in generalisations about gender. Banning plastic bags was the same (a complex problem wrapped up in a highly simplistic ‘cause’). I think we should always replace causes, with actual *causes*. Think through what is actually the cause of a particular problem. Not turn a too-general idea into a slogan.