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emotion
is
essentialbut
its
also
insufficient. Anger alone cannot create the
society we need and deserve; fury by itself
will not take us to the place we need to be.
So there needs to be another bumper
sticker, right next to that first one: If youre
only pissed offif youre not guided by
deep feelings of love and empathyyoull
be lost in the wilderness.
Anger and love. Rage and generosity. Fury
and tenderness.
Humanityand the possibility of a humane
futureasks us to get it right.
Its our duty to fight; its our responsibility
to win.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the
age of foolishness, it was the epoch of
belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was
the season of Light, it was the season of
Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was
the winter of despair. ~~~Charles Dickens
The US empire is in steady and irreversible
decline, but its unlikely to exit the world
stage, or to relinquish its self-designated
role as the worlds only superpower easily
or painlesslythis is where we begin to
name this political moment, honestly and
unsparingly, a moment unique in history.
The end of every previous empire
Ottoman, British, French, Portuguese,
Belgian, Germanwas accompanied by war
and mass slaughter at escalating scales.
The US is in decline, true, but its also the
greatest military power ever assembled on
earth with vast arsenals of weapons of mass
destruction capable of wreckageeven
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