Anna B
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https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
This poem kept me going during the insanity of the Trump years.
We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were
... See moreWe are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures.
And when one submits to the self-compulsion of ideological thinking, one surrenders one’s inner freedom to think.
Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality, when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands.