(2) I Will Never Stop Fighting for You. - By Liz Gumbinner
What do we see in the mirror now? An unstable country, political institutions that might not be perpetuated, a people divided into warring tribes and prone to violence—the kind of country we used to think we could save. No one is going to save us. We are our last best hope.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Yes. Is the future going to break our hearts? Yes. But around the margins, there is much we could do — on both the resistance and resilience fronts — and it is essential that we do it. Not just for society and the future, but for ourselves. Because only by getting on that bicycle and riding it, can we find our own balance.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
They feed on our exhaustion. They expect our capitulation. They rely on us behaving like them: willing to ignore or cause others’ suffering to preserve our own power. They hate us, and they think we will learn to hate ourselves, too. But they also underestimate us. We are stubborn and unruly, annoying and persistent, bitter and terrified. And unlik... See more
Americans are good at the mingled complacency and despair that says things cannot change, will not change, and we do not have power to change them. You’d have to be an amnesiac or at least ignorant of history and even current events to fail to see that our country and our world have always been changing, are in the midst of great and terrible chang
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