Post #2261968

2026-05-08 16:11 UTC

Question: Do you know what issue is most important to you? I emphasize the word &quot;most&quot; -- like, if you got a wish to fix one single problem, would you know your answer immediately, or would you have to think about it? (Doesn&#39;t matter if it&#39;s big, like climate change, or small, like too many cigarette butts on the ground or whatever.) If you are clear on your most important issue, feel free to add it as a reply. Boosts encouraged for more answers.

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@CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net 2026-05-08 16:51

@michaelc@scholar.social I can get it down to one thing, but then it can be more difficult to discuss with people who don't know me. It's "work to alleviate suffering for everyone." I can even blast that into specific policy but I won't go on here.

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@cy@fedicy.us.to 2026-05-08 17:16

I'd bring back magic.

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@tyzbit@toot.now 2026-05-08 18:16

@michaelc@scholar.social the way I put it to myself is the classic genie scenario: if i had one wish from a genie, what would i wish for? my answer would be some variant of "i wish everyone cared about everyone else" or sometimes "i wish people could feel both the love and hurt they deal to others".

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@nspsegal@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 21:00

@michaelc@scholar.social Without a doubt, I'm committed to the role of artists in America. In nearly every country on earth, artists are part of the common good. In the US, they're producers of marketable commodities. We're one of the few countries without an Arts Secretary on the Cabinet. (arthousesf.org). I'm a native San Franciscan, where a world-class movement in the arts nearly every decade of the 2Oth century. The last one to begin here was Burning Man, in 1990, planned in my flat for the first decade.

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