Oct 13, 2026, 3:08 PMI’ve been contemplating the concept of control recently and wondering if there’s ever a situation where it isn’t a negative.
It seems like we say things are under control or that we have control of a situation/environment/thing when we often mean things are being stewarded or that we have accepted stewardship of a situation/environment/thing, and I feel like it’s probably a bad signal to “stewardship-wash” the idea of “control” into something that’s not bad.
Oct 13, 2026, 3:12 PMToo often I think “how do we get this shit under control” when what I really mean to think is “how do we take stewardship of this shit so we can prevent it from being quite so shitty in the future”
Oct 13, 2026, 3:13 PMand if the words I choose carry hidden connotations even when I’m using them with myself, what chance do those words have to convey my intended meaning to others?
@djsundog Nature's never under control, & Humans were happy when they were living in it. Every critter & plant just does its own thing, & you find a spot to be in.
Of course sometimes you starve or get eaten by a jaguar, but still beats going to work in an office for corpos.