THE ANTIDOTE TO DEFEATISM-Chris Hedges You can’t talk about hope if you don’t resist, and Edward Snowden has certainly resisted. Heroically. We must carry out the good, or at least the good so far in as we can determine it, and then we have to let it go. The Buddhists call it ‘karma’. I come out of the seminary; that’s what faith is. It’s the belief that it goes somewhere even if empirically everything around you seems to point in the other direction. Once we give up, once we stop resisting, then we’re finished. Not only finished in a literal sense, but finished spiritually and morally. So, I fall back in moments of distress like this on that belief, which is one that I learned in seminary; that we have a capacity and an ability and a moral duty to fight against forces of evil even if it looks almost certain that those forces will triumph.- Chris Hedges From: mediaroots.org/chris-hedges-crisis-cults-and-the-collapse-of-industrial-civilization-the-military-mind-the-antidote-to-defeatism/
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 01:00:01 +0000
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