RevolucianaJul 10, 2024

Can we start a radical optimism thread? Because I need a #radical optimism thread. And I think you need a #radicaloptimism thread.

News. Quotes. Music. Thoughts. Whatever.

I'll start:

"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." --Angela Davis

If this gets any traction, please boost, especially the replies. You and I are not the only ones that need this right now.

Show threadRevolucianaJul 10, 2024
Just flipped over to another platform and immediately saw this right after posting this about #radicaloptimism
Show threadPolly KraisusJul 10, 2024
@revoluciana one of my faves by Howard Zinn:
"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. [...]
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Show threadPolly Kraisus
@revoluciana
[...] 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. [...]
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Jul 11, 2024 at 12:00amWeb
Show threadPolly KraisusJul 11, 2024

@revoluciana
[...] 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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Show threadMurdoc Addams has movedJul 11, 2024
@stragu @revoluciana "We live as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be."
(Angel, Season 4, Episode 1: "Deep Down")