A Riff off a Carl Sagan Facebook Reel

This guy was a god damn prophet.

Watching Carl Sagan today feels less like nostalgia and more like a warning flare launched from the past. He had that rare clarity—moral, scientific, human—and he spoke like someone who could see the consequences of our indifference long before we lived them.

Because here we are.

We are living in a stone cold world.

Heartless.

Numbed down.

Fearful.

You could add to that list. I’m sure you already have your own words for it.

But my question is simpler:

Where is humanity?

Where is compassion?

Where is inclusiveness?

Where is egalitarianism?

All in all—where is all the goodness humans can be?

And how can we, with all that we are capable of, destroy human beings and still be blind to our own cannibalism?

CPR for a Society in Cardiac Arrest

That’s why the New Hampshire Bridge Brigade for Democracy exist.

We choose to be high visibility humans—to perform CPR on a society gone indifferently rotten.

Not because we think we’re heroes. Not because we think we’re better than anyone. But because the public square is going into cardiac arrest, and silence is not a neutral act. Silence is withdrawal. Silence is surrender.

We need to shake and wake this dying humanity.

We have become so autonomous, so algorithm-soaked, that we morph into data bits—avatars and imposters of what it means to be human. We trade presence for performance. We trade empathy for outrage. We trade truth for convenience.

And then we wonder why everything feels dead.

What We Counter

We counter the madness of higher office and all that drifts behind it.

We counter policy cruelty and public lying.

We counter the death of heart.

We counter the walking dead—those who move through life without conscience, without curiosity, without care for their neighbor’s dignity.

We counter authoritarian greed and power.

And yes: we do it with a high-stakes counterbalance to pure evil.

Because that’s what it is. We can dress it up in polite language if that makes it easier to swallow, but the result is the same: cruelty becomes policy, and the human spirit is treated as disposable.

How We Fight

We don’t counter it with more deadness.

We fight with serious color.

With dance.

With intelligence.

With high artistry.

With respect for the scientific method.

We fight with presence. With visibility. With courage. With joy that refuses to be extinguished.

We move the unmovable.

This is our higher calling, with little margin of error.

We run on intention, essential humanness, and the incredible lightness of being.

And we invite others to join us—not as spectators, not as avatars, but as real people in real life, pushing back against a world that wants us numb, compliant, and alone.

Let’s together expose the darkness.