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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"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
Its scary out there right now. Its 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
Fundamentalists are permanently at war with the future. They are infatuated with an imagined past.
eppur_se_muova
Jan 2021
#6
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)1. I just now watch him speak to this on the last word..a very powerful and hopeful message
StClone
(11,684 posts)2. Thom Hartmann often offers similar sentiments
I believe they are right!
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Sogo
(4,986 posts)5. Will you please elaborate?
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Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)4. I am going to breath a lot easier the day after Biden is sworn in.
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.
They are never going away.