Close-up photograph of pale white rhizome roots weaving horizontally through dark soil beneath green succulent stems. The tangled, non-hierarchical root network fills the frame. Overlaid text reads: “Field Note 4.2—An Ontology of Equality: Why Authority Needs Care; and Care, Authority,” with the author name “K. L. Homme” and the website “noshortcutstonow.substack.com.”

Not all authority is domination. Some is care.

This Field Note asks a harder question than “Who has power?”
It asks: What kind of authority deserves consent?

🎧 Audio here:
noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/filed-note...

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