Lucy Opens Fire: connections re: Edward Said/JP Lederach

We actually set out to save the world. That is what was insane . . . me, for thinking I could enter a war and personally restore order.

So that’s the easy answer: forswear idealism, resign myself to a sad maturity; put away the things of youth; be thankful I survived and move on.

But that’s horseshit too, a craven capitulation. I’m not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naïve and romantic and idealist – the part of yourself you treasure most – to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact? If everyone resigns themselves to cynicism, isn’t that exactly how vulnerable millions end up dead?

- Ken Cain, Emergency Sex

Lucy Opens Fire

Friday, August 3, 2018

connections re: Edward Said/JP Lederach

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