>Although modernity always sees itself and behaves as if “young,” it has grown old and is facing its end. Learning to offer palliative care to modernity dying within and around us is not something that modernity itself can teach us to do. In other words, most people will not willingly let go of the enjoyments and securities afforded by modernity: they will not voluntarily part with harmful habits of being that are extremely pleasurable. However, our collective unconscious knows that the enjoyments and securities promised by modernity cannot be endlessly sustained. >- Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Hospicing Modernity The single story of progress told by modernity is coming to an end, and we must prepare "ourselves for coexisting differently whenever these enjoyments and securities may be taken away, whether this will happen in our lifetimes". This preparation involves [[depth learning]] in order to: > - heal intellectually, emotionally, relationally, economically, ecologically, and politically; > - abolish colonial and racial violence, inequality, hierarchies of worth and separations; > - center the earth and decenter our egos, identities, human narratives, and projections; > - age and to die in generative ways; > - care for, rather than compete with, everything and everyone; > - plant, repurpose technology, compost, repair, and regenerate everything; > - prioritize the common good for humans, nonhumans, and the planet; > - use words and conversation carefully and wisely, with humility and maturity; > - own up, sober up, clean up, grow up, show up, and exist differently.