yea absolutely 🩷 what i’m really expressing is that i think you are grappling with the real pragmatics of what bridging looks like, which i admire and have no issues with. but at the same time im trying to be stringent about the question as framed, to demonstrate why i think it’s a bad question.

to be blunt, increasing agency to work with others *is* agency, and a more interesting form of agency than self-service slop creation

my take: the original incitement was a vague collection of disparate issues and a congealed mass of pet interests. there are generative paths one can traverse with this as a starting point, some that you are traveling, but i think the whole conversation is lacking clarity and was poorly introduced