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In the days of the Flip-Flap, ride designers were most concerned with coasters getting
stuck
somewhere along the track.
I remember what it was like when I was
stuck
in that bedroom, when it had been months since I had seen the sun.
When I came home, I was instantly frustrated,
stuck
in traffic as I crossed the top end of our perimeter highway.
But when we look today in wonder and disgust, maybe, at the metropolis sprawl before us, we wonder if we're
stuck.
Are we
stuck
with the legacy of that inequity?
Are we
stuck
with this dystopian traffic hellscape?
Are we
stuck
with rampant urban displacement, with environmental degradation?
Are we
stuck
with social isolation or political polarization?
And I felt I was stuck; I was stagnant.
But those aren't the things that
stuck
with me or guided me when I stopped being a midwife and started other jobs.
What
stuck
with me was this bedrock belief that each one of us comes into this world with a unique worth.
This is when our institutions and our leaders are
stuck
in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision and devoid of soul.
But I remember something Kennedy said that has really
stuck
with me, and that is something to the effect that humans can be as big as the solutions to all the problems we've created.
And when people feel
stuck
and helpless, they stop seeing their role in a bigger system.
You should be asking me the question, "How in the world are we going to test this crazy, science fiction idea,
stuck
as we are in three dimensions?"
So it's a lot of material just
stuck
together with this attractive force.
That last one really
stuck
with me.
So I decided that I wanted to put my childhood superpower to some use by trying to make people on the different sides of these issues understand what it's like to be a young person
stuck
between your family and your country.
Now, we also see this idea that black people are people either alternately outside of the bounds of time or
stuck
in the past, in a scenario where, much as I'm doing right now, a black person stands up and insists that racism still matters, and a person, usually white, says to them, "Why are you
stuck
in the past?
Well, the thesis of "The Bottom Billion" is that a billion people have been
stuck
living in economies that have been stagnant for 40 years, and hence diverging from the rest of mankind.
We forget that they're a human being with a lifetime of experience that shaped their mind, and we get
stuck
on that first wave of anger, and the conversation has a very hard time ever moving beyond it.
And I was stuck, because I didn't have any way to describe what I do.
But the good news is, phages have
stuck
around.
But the hardest nights of my life have
stuck
with me, impacting who I am and what I do.
We are fundamentally stuck, and that is why we need a killer app of climate policy to break through each of these barriers.
And when Musu shows up for training, her instructors are
stuck
using flip charts and markers.
They'll get video lessons on giving kids vaccines and have online courses on spotting the next outbreak, so they're not
stuck
using flip charts.
We'll help these countries accredit these workers, so that they're not
stuck
remaining an under-recognized, undervalued group, but become a renowned, empowered profession, just like nurses and doctors.
But it gets
stuck.
So as rivers flow, as they're bulldozing material from the mountains to the sea, sometimes bits of sand and clay and rock get
stuck
in the ground.
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