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The Ezra Klein Show
Klein described it as a meditation on hope that argues history includes both cruelty and compassion, urging readers to act despite bad times. He quoted a passage emphasizing the power of remembering humanity's better moments.
And then the third is just this Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. ... it goes like this, to be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that huma...
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Klein described it as a meditation on hope that argues history includes both cruelty and compassion, urging readers to act despite bad times. He quoted a passage emphasizing the power of remembering humanity's better moments.
And then the third is just this Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. ... it goes like this, to be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places, and there are so many, where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.