The Hope Of The World Lies In

There Appear To Be No Integrating Forces, No Unified Meaning, No True Inner Understanding Of Phenomena In Our Experience Of The World. Experts Can Explain Anything In The Objective World To Us, Yet We Understand Our Own Lives Less And Less. In Short, We Live In The Postmodern World, Where Everything Is Possible And Almost Nothing Is Certain.

Hope Is A Feeling That Life And Work Have Meaning. You Either Have It Or You Don't, Regardless Of The State Of The World That Surrounds You.

The Experience I'm Talking About Has Given Me One Certainty: The Salvation Of This Human World Lies Nowhere Else Than In The Human Heart, In The Human Power To Reflect, In Human Meekness And In Human Responsibility. Without A Global Revolution In Human Consciousness, Nothing Will Change For The Better, And The Catastrophe Toward Which This World Is Headed Will Be Unavoidable.

Genuine Politics -- Even Politics Worthy Of The Name -- The Only Politics I Am Willing To Devote Myself To -- Is Simply A Matter Of Serving Those Around Us: Serving The Community And Serving Those Who Will Come After Us. Its Deepest Roots Are Moral Because It Is A Responsibility Expressed Through Action, To And For The Whole.

Communism Was Overthrown By Life, By Thought, By Dignity.