Something to think

In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy?
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose anychance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world. There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people's thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.

The Optimism of Uncertainty,
by Howard Zinn,
September 30, 2004

Às vezes o mundo parece um grande buraco negro, incapaz até mesmo de se regenerar. Às vezes precisamos que alguém nos lembre que as coisas mudam. Este senhor, hoje de manhã, no Daily Show, lembrou-me algo que já me tinha esquecido, uma paixão pelo pensamento crítico que estava em mim adormecida.
Aqui fica o site dele para futuras leituras: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html