Hope Is A Longing For

If Your Homeland Were Invaded By Aliens Who Cut Down The Forests, Poisoned The Water And Air And Contaminated The Food Supply, Would You Resist?

We Can Follow The Example Of Those Who Remembered That The Role Of An Activist Is Not To Navigate Systems Of Oppressive Power With As Much Integrity As Possible, But Rather To Confront And Take Down Those Systems.

Civilization Is Based On A Clearly Defined And Widely Accepted Yet Often Unarticulated Hierarchy. Violence Done By Those Higher On The Hierarchy To Those Lower Is Nearly Always Invisible, That Is, Unnoticed. When It Is Noticed, It Is Fully Rationalized. Violence Done By Those Lower On The Hierarchy To Those Higher Is Unthinkable, And When It Does Occur Is Regarded With Shock, Horror, And The Fetishization Of The Victims.

For Us To Maintain Our Way Of Living, We Must Tell Lies To Each Other And Especially To Ourselves. The Lies Are Necessary Because, Without Them, Many Deplorable Acts Would Become Impossibilities.

I Think It's Very Important For Us To Start To Build A Culture Of Resistance, Because What We're Doing Isn't Working, Clearly.