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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://newsie.social/users/stevesilberman/statuses/112796869535647646">Steve Silberman (stevesilberman@newsie.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 01:27:09 JST</a><a href="https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman" title="stevesilberman@newsie.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/83820-48-20230102075453.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Steve Silberman" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Steve Silberman</a></section><article><p>Exactly the message you need to hear today, by Howard Zinn [via Patrice Wynne]</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3383390#notice-6657286">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-07-17T01:27:09+09:00" title="Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 01:27:09 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman/112796869535647646" rel="external" title="Sent from newsie.social via ActivityPub">newsie.social</a></span></span><a href="https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman/112796869535647646">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2915219">TO BE HOPEFUL IN BAD TIMES is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
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1. TO BE HOPEFUL IN BAD TIMES is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. — Howard Zinn
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