But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and hereโs the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.
Derrick JensenPremise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.
Derrick JensenThere is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.
Derrick JensenWhen dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.
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