People Make Culture
New addition to Culture Machine: Mister Rogers adamantly refuses to use the passive voice for 28 minutes in "How People Make Crayons"
The lesson here is aimed at kids, but adults would do well to remember it too: people make the world we inhabit. It is all the aggregate of trillions of individual ideas, actions, and decisions. None of it is a given; it is fragile and impermanent and needs our sustenance to keep it going. But the flip side of that is: you have the power to make whatever you want to see.
It feels good to make something.