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marmar

(77,081 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 11:59 PM Jan 2021

"We are living through a revolt against the future. The future will prevail."


We are falling on our face because we are jumping high
A dash of perspective in a dark hour

Anand Giridharadas


It’s scary out there right now. It’s going to be scary for some time to come. What has been unleashed, what has been revealed, is ugly. It is what makes democracies die.

In the despair, it is easy to lose perspective. I certainly do all the time. But from time to time, I step back and try to remember where we are as a country on the arc of things.

And I see then that this is both a very dark time and, potentially, a very bright time. It's important to hold these truths together.

When I look down at the ground of the present right now, I feel depressed. If I lift my head to the horizon, I see a different picture.

This is not the chaos of the beginning of something. This is the chaos of the end of something. ...........(more)

https://the.ink/p/hope






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"We are living through a revolt against the future. The future will prevail." (Original Post) marmar Jan 2021 OP
I just now watch him speak to this on the last word..a very powerful and hopeful message Thekaspervote Jan 2021 #1
Thom Hartmann often offers similar sentiments StClone Jan 2021 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Jan 2021 #3
Will you please elaborate? Sogo Jan 2021 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Jan 2021 #7
I am going to breath a lot easier the day after Biden is sworn in. Quixote1818 Jan 2021 #4
Fundamentalists are permanently at war with the future. They are infatuated with an imagined past. eppur_se_muova Jan 2021 #6

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Quixote1818

(28,946 posts)
4. I am going to breath a lot easier the day after Biden is sworn in.
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 01:54 AM
Jan 2021

After that I think things are just going to keep getting better.

eppur_se_muova

(36,269 posts)
6. Fundamentalists are permanently at war with the future. They are infatuated with an imagined past.
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 02:49 AM
Jan 2021

They are never going away.

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