Our future is far from certain. Will we succumb to the exigencies of the moment or rise above? The human spirit is beckoning.
It’s arguable that every successful movement in our long and checkered history was infused with, if not inspired by, an idealistic component. Even freedom or liberation movements looked beyond the immediate gains that would benefit the oppressed masses to the idea. And the same goes for the Civil Rights activists, or the pacifist movement spurred by Gandhi and adopted by Martin Luther King, Jr., the abolitionists or the suffragettes. It was the idea that fired them all: from Lenin and Castro to Che Guevara and Daniel Ortega (and yes, even Hitler and Mussolini, because we can’t ignore the negative examples since they, too, prove the point) – an idea that was bigger than life, bigger than the immediate circumstances of the moment, however deplorable, and which stood in need of correcting, bigger than the people themselves.…
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76 - roger nowosielski
Great, Somik. It's on the navigation bar, far right. You can't miss it.
I do look forward to a fruitful exchange.
Roger