Conjecture

Every great turn in human history happened to us, and the stories came afterwards to explain it as fate or triumph. This is the first one we can see coming, and a shared story of where we want to go, held open to correction, is how billions of people choose a future instead of drifting into one, but only where it also gives each of them a stake and a part, because openness alone binds no one.

Stories that make people act