I Was A Good Liberal

Nothing Is More Boring Than Some Old Person Going On And On About The Way Things Used To Be.

You Cannot Live A Political Life, You Cannot Live A Moral Life If You're Not Willing To Open Your Eyes And See The World More Clearly. See Some Of The Injustice That's Going On. Try To Make Yourself Aware Of What's Happening In The World. And When You Are Aware, You Have A Responsibility To Act.

Let's Look At Two Things Real Quickly: The Civil Rights Movement In Mississippi In The Sixties And The Arab Spring Starting In Tunisia And Cairo. What They Had In Common Was People Who Were Told, And Who Believed Inside Themselves, That They Were A Certain Way, And The Society At Large Believed It.

Part Of The Fun Of Writing, Touring, Teaching, Is Engaging With Real People About All Of It: What To Do Now, How To Build A Movement, Of Approaches To Teaching, Of Parenting - It's Exciting To Be In That Dialogue.

To Me, Activism Requires You To Try Very Hard To Open Your Eyes To The World As It Is. See As Much As You Can, Knowing That Whatever You See Is Going To Be Partial. That You Possess A Partial Consciousness In An Infinite And Expanding Universe.