Rebecca Solnit: How Change Happens

global restlessness, a pervasive shift of imagination and desire—that

It required imagination, empathy, and information

You are part of the system, and you need, we all need, to change that system. Nothing less than systemic change will save us.

There are times when it seems as though not only the future but the present is dark: few recognize what a radically transformed world we live in, one that has been transformed not only by such nightmares as global warming and global capital but by dreams of freedom, of justice, and transformed by things we could not have dreamed of.