What Rebecca Solnit thinks about government

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American writer; author of Wanderlust (2000), A Paradise Built in Hell (2009), Men Explain Things to Me (2014) and Hope in the Dark (2004). Columnist at The Guardian. Writes Meditations in an Emergency, a newsletter on climate, democracy and feminism.

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1. 11 Sept 2026

   Our readingHollywood and government plans often incorrectly assume that people panic or act selfishly during crises.

   courage

   Their wordsHollywood movies and too many government pandemic plans still presume that most of us are cowards or brutes, that we panic, trample each other, rampage, or freeze helplessly in moments of crisis and chaos.

   ↗The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failedmeditationsinanemergency.com 1st of 2 in this piece