but for all that I've seen the flaws in how it's been implemented and the cracks in that consensus of late, I've never lost sight of the core fact that there are very few other places in the world where I could have started out where I did and still ended up where I am
on "very few other places" see also this batch of quotes (the original post is from Australia, before anyone else goes down the wrong track) bsky.app/profile/dumb... we are only kinda succeeding at something a shocking percentage of the world is not even really trying
We have not fully accomplished the ideal but what we have accomplished is worth defending AND perfecting, and whatever my next forty years here look like I want to help do that, even if just through my voice and my example and trying to keep the ladder hanging down behind me