Hope Is Not Like A Lottery Ticket

There Are Infinite Shades Of Grey. Writing Often Appears So Black And White.

What Gets Called 'the Sixties' Left A Mixed Legacy And A Lot Of Divides. But It Opened Everything To Question, And What Seems The Most Fundamental And Most Pervasive In All The Ensuing Changes Is The Loss Of Faith In Authority: The Authority Of Government, Of Science, Of Patriarchy, Of Progress, Of Capitalism, Of Violence, Of Whiteness.

Previous Technologies Have Expanded Communication. But The Last Round May Be Contracting It. The Eloquence Of Letters Has Turned Into The Unnuanced Spareness Of Texts; The Intimacy Of Phone Conversations Has Turned Into The Missed Signals Of Mobile Phone Chat ... ('you're Breaking Up' Is The Cry Of Our Time).

Women Often Find Great Roles In Revolution, Simply Because The Rules Fall Apart And Everyone Has Agency, Anyone Can Act.

Violence Doesn't Have A Race, A Class, A Religion, Or A Nationality, But It Does Have A Gender.