hope
A lot of hopelessness, I think, comes from amnesia.
The past helps us understand the future.
Somebody said, “What’s the best thing I can do as an individual?”
And… he said, “Stop being an individual.”
I think we’re beginning to recognize that individualism is lonely and we have a deep crisis of loneliness that Silicon Valley, pandemics, et cetera, have made worse… the solution is community, being a part of a community, finding a community, supporting community… I think that people deeply want to be part of something larger.
Capitalism wants us to be consumers, not citizens.
A citizen is part of something bigger.
A citizen is a participant in public life.