Better World
Humanity needs us to believe in a better world, and start working toward it. Cynicism is selfish as well as pointless, and even though the times might be frightening, and solutions seem distant, shrugging is boring, ineffective, and not an option. And solutions are actually one-footstep-in-front-of-the-other close. We live in the world we build, or the one we’re afraid of. That fear-world is noise: deafening, defeating, numbing; and in it, we are small and cowed, throwing our hands up in defeat. The building-world is the opposite of surrender, the audacity of envisioning something different, something better, and then laying bricks, and mud, and straw to contrive it. The right thing to do is still the right thing to do when others abandon it, when the corrupt are winning, and when the outcome is uncertain. Go down swinging. Build something, stand for something, see something/say something. The sniveling, empty-headed endorsement of any stupi...