"If the Democratic, semi-liberal approach has failed us, then we need to stop fishing for hope in that lake. We can and must vote to prevent the fascist invasion, but that’s like keeping the walls from crumbling as the horde starves us as it lays seige.
That isn’t hope. Hope is seeing that, understanding why it has failed, and imagining what can replace it. Not the messianic fervor of the right, but also not the calm deliberation of the establishment.
Having imagination is phase one of that transformation. The second phase is belief. Believing we can do it. Believing we have the power to do it, whoever wins the election, whatever happens next. Third is finding the people to help make it happen.
Imagination. Belief. Connection. These are what give us power. This is what they want to kill in us. This is what will get us to making hope something real.
There are fascist invasion phases. It’s now time for us to start the transformative phase.
— Elad Nehorai, The Second Phase of the Fascist Invasion Has Begun: It's time to change how we think of the way fascists are winning. And, as a result, how we can fight back. Substack, June 17, 2024
On the theme of hope, I previously spotted:
"The hope is that, like in a special form of Tulpamancy, through an act of faith, this outside pole can be invested with enough power to pull the 'I,' or a mutilated form of it, outside of its world; through a leap of faith to force the 'I' to make a leap outside of the loop that constitutes it and its world. This outside is usually spatially represented but could be temporal too."
— Florin Flueras. "Dreaming the End of Dreaming." In Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology. Edia Connole and Gary J. Shipley, eds. Schism, 2015. p. 364.
See my article, Let's Make Hope. It's an 11-minute read on Medium.
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