A reminder: Joy, Love and Hope are the true subversion.
Resistance and Resilience through Love, Joy, and Hope
Author’s note: This essay was originally published in the first issue of A Beautiful Resistance.
Many things in the world today seem very dire: species are going extinct, ecosystems are being ruined, humans are waging wars and oppressing each other; all across the globe are signs that the state of the world, everywhere, is terrible.
There are those who look at these events and say that, as our life systems continue to collapse and take our civilizations and other beings with them, now is a time to treat the world as if it has gone into hospice, as if not only our death as a species is certain in the relatively near future, but the rest of the world’s living systems as well.
It is true that things like global warming and its massive side effects will get worse before they can…
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