Loving the marigold
This brilliant and inspiring piece should be the progressive manifesto.
What was particularly distressing about the US election campaign was that the left allowed the right to set the agenda. This is not wholly surprising, of course, because it is the right that is running things; the right's bogeyman that we fight; the right's policies that are destroying the fabric of our societies; the right's vicious hatred of humankind that poses the greatest challenge to our world.
But Griffin points out, very eloquently, that we do not have to simply be responsive to the problems and threats we perceive. We can step beyond the world into a new world that we imagine. We know we cannot take all of our brothers and sisters with us -- many much prefer the pit to the end of the rainbow -- but that doesn't mean we cannot use the power of our imagination (so beautifully described in the story of Desnos) to describe the pot of gold.
posted by Dr Zen @ 10:46 am
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