This concluding chapter explores how mediation, care, and collective action shape the potential for social change in contemporary life. It argues that the fundamental fantasy of “authentic selfhood” is anathema to the ongoing work of building sociality through local, everyday practices in public institutions and private spaces. Drawing on pedagogical experience and theorists such as Natalie Loveless, Keller Easterling, Mari Ruti, and Anna Kornbluh, the chapter highlights the value of uncertainty and contingency in teaching and creative processes, suggesting that focusing on the material conditions of meaning-making can reveal gaps and opportunities for transformation. The discussion engages with theories of repetition and compulsion, proposing that even within cycles of stasis and nostalgia, the unpredictable “debris of life” opens possibilities for renewal and a (potentially) less awful.