How it 'becomes real'

Asked directly. Asked "how do you know it would be becoming real?", the honest, domestic answer: "I would want to be able to tell my family over dinner and then not laugh at it," to "just mention it to someone" and hear "yeah, I know, why haven't we got it already?" instead of "what the fuck are you talking about? I've never heard of that." Realness is the loss of embarrassment, the thing becoming ordinary to say aloud.

Texture from elsewhere. The deeper felt-realness is emotional and local: "you actually see the change after an assembly," "immediate actions... that genuinely change things," "which then leads to that, again, emotion." Interviewed "before deep thought happens," people "get emotional because their genuine local environment has changed." It lands when caring becomes acting: "people have cared enough, they've decided, and now people start acting on it." Realness here is consequence felt in one's own ground, not generic optimism.

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