Guest Post by Eric Peters
If you’ve ever restored an old car or a motorcycle – a basket case that needs everything – you know the importance of focusing on one thing at a time. Because it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the totality of the mess.
The last bike I restored (a ’75 Kawasaki S1 triple) I started with just the frame. I had the entire bike completely disassembled, the parts laid out like the famous skeleton of Lucy, the oldest semi-complete fossil of a distant ancestor of humanity yet found.
Looking at all those rusty, worn out grease-caked parts, the peeling chrome and pitted metal, made it hard to imagine the “like new” bike I hoped to have at the end of the odyssey.
Which is what makes it hard to even begin.
Which makes it easy to give up.
Our situation, politically, is a lot like this. So much needs fixing, so much is broken, it’s easy to just give up and resign ourselves to the hopelessness of it all.
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