Reading: Hope In the Dark

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Air date: 
Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:00am
Tod Sloan reads from Rebecca Solnit's book, "Hope in the Dark"
Tod Sloan reads from Rebecca Solnit's "Hope In The Dark", here's just a snippet:

"Causes and effects assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later. Sometimes a few passionate people change the world, sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do. Sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or same ideal, and change comes upon us like a change of weather.

What all these changes have in common is they begin in the imagination, in hope. To hope is to gamble-- to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that open heart and uncertainty are better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk. I say all this to you because hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. I say this because hope is an axe you can break down doors with in an emergency. Because hope should shove you out the door. Because it'll take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihlation of the Earth's treasures, and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. Hope just means another world might be possible---not promised, not guaranteed."

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