QotD: When the Situation is Hopeless

Posts from This Journal “hope” Tag

• The Problem with Democracy: We are Horny, Greedy and Cruel

  Democracy is based on the belief that people are more good than bad, that we are more curious than controlling, more playful than violent, and more…

• QotD: De Becker on American Violence

  "While we are quick to judge the human rights record of every other country on earth, it is we civilized Americans whose murder rate is ten…

• QotD: Because There Was Light Before

  It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. --John Steinbeck

• Burn it down

  Suicidality is directly linked to a feeling of powerlessness. When there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it, it's easy to lose…

• Even More Interesting Times

  For elitist liberals, the times got so interesting last week that folks are sunk in depression. The changes that our incoming presidential…

• A Howard Zinn essay worth reading: The Optimism of Uncertainty

  https://www.thenation.com/article/optimism-uncertainty/ Because unpredictable change is the way of things.

• QotD: the Rhythm of Living

  Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear,…

• QotD: the Long Eye of History

  Don't forget: We live during the least violent time in all of recorded human history. We have done this by abandoning tribalism and embracing…

• QotD: Health

  He who has health, has hope; he who has hope, has everything. --Thomas Carlysle