In Pragmatic Terms, Our Challenge Is Less

What Haunts Me Is Not Exactly The Absence Of Literal Space So Much As A Deep Craving For Metaphorical Space: Release, Escape, Some Kind Of Open-ended Freedom.

Politics Hates A Vacuum. If It Isn't Filled With Hope, Someone Will Fill It With Fear.

So We Are Left With A Stark Choice: Allow Climate Disruption To Change Everything About Our World, Or Change Pretty Much Everything About Our Economy To Avoid That Fate. But We Need To Be Very Clear: Because Of Our Decades Of Collective Denial, No Gradual, Incremental Options Are Now Available To Us.

It Is Always Easier To Deny Reality Than To Allow Our Worldview To Be Shattered, A Fact That Was As True Of Die-hard Stalinists At The Height Of The Purges As It Is Of Libertarian Climate Change Deniers Today.

The Anti-war Movement Should Turn Itself Into A Pro-democracy Movement