If there is one thing that I understand, it’s that things break.

It happens. Things wear out from use. Improper use wears pieces out. Weather, dust, and even sunlight can wear down things. There’s nothing wrong with things breaking, you just have to know how to fix them. That’s my job, fixing things.

And you should always try to fix broken things.

This world is not without limits, so we should make the most of what we have. Repair and replace and fix whenever we can. Almost everything can be fixed.

So, when society breaks, it should be fixed too.

Think of society as a machine where every person is a tiny piece. Every piece is important, though not essential, to making it run. Every piece serves a purpose. So long as all of the pieces are working, the machine can work well too. Even if some of the pieces don’t work completely perfectly, if they’re not hurting the machine’s ability to function that’s just fine.

But sometimes a part just…breaks.

In a machine as complex as society, when a piece truly breaks it can hurt the whole machine. You can try to fix the part, but some pieces are simply beyond repair. In any other machine, you could just take out the part and replace it. In society, the parts come back and they keep trying to hurt your machine. In society, you have to be willing to really remove that piece. You have to be willing to destroy that piece for the sake of your machine.

But all is not lost.

If you must remove a gear from your machine and you can’t use it as a gear anymore, it’s not junk. Everything can be re-purposed. Everything can have its place. One simply has to get creative. I am very creative.

That’s my job, fixing things.