There are difficult choices that have to be made. Choices about who we are and who we want to be when the world is in crisis and people's lives and freedoms are at risk.
It's easy to laugh at people who "choose the mountain" - deliberately making their lives harder and more complicated to pursue their values. We laugh because we've been taught, we've been convinced that sincerity and idealism are cringeworthy, embarrassing to the point of pornographic discomfort.
But that cynicism didn't help us stave off the last gasps of bigoted, white supremacist power, and it won't help us fight against it.
We need the idealism that pushes ordinary people to make better decisions and stick to them.
Yes, even if that looks like switching email providers.
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