https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-18-the-power-of-hope
"Hard times make despair and cynicism easy, and we’ve had no lack of hard times
for a lot of years. And all along,
the peddlers of hate and fear have been
openly championing the worst traits of humanity: bigotry, cruelty as the
point, meanness portrayed as a virtue, and vulgarity that has nothing to do
with the word fuck and everything to do with being the worst sort of human.
We’ve been starved for open goodness, pure wholesomeness, and any kind of firm
declaration that the right way to exist in the world is through kindness and
compassion and love. What we crave is the affirmation that joy and hope are, in
fact, essential parts of being fully human in the world. That goodness is, in
short, good.
And that it’s not cheesy or silly or childish to say so, which is what all the
cynics and hate scolds like to say.
Hope and joy are, in fact, radical and
subversive, a direct rebuttal to the brutality of the world.
I’ve been saying this for a long time."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
