In The Time of Monsters

Edward Hughes

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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.

Now is the time of monsters.

~ Antonio Gramsci

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Proof of man’s sufficiency, however, is not that he conquers the world, but that the world does not conquer him. He cannot remake the universe, but he can prevent outward conditions from destroying his inner character.

~ Manly Palmer Hall.

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They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving…

A lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary. Gather up your resources, the metaphysical ones that are heart and soul and care, as well as the practical ones.

People kept the faith in the dictatorships of South America in the 1970s and 1980s, in the East Bloc countries and the USSR, women are protesting right now in Iran and people there are writing poetry.

There is no alternative to persevering, and that does not require you to feel good.