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

[marmar]

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

[Thekaspervote]

1. I just now watch him speak to this on the last word..a very powerful and hopeful message

[StClone]

2. Thom Hartmann often offers similar sentiments

I believe they are right!

[Sogo]

5. Will you please elaborate?

[Quixote1818]

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]

6. Fundamentalists are permanently at war with the future. They are infatuated with an imagined past.

They are never going away.