Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and the author of Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. She lives in San Francisco, California.
— From December 2016
The Dog-Eared Page
excerpted from
excerpted from
Hope In The Dark
A lot of activists seem to have a mechanistic view of change, or perhaps they expect what quack diet pills offer, “Quick and easy results guaranteed.” They expect finality, definitiveness, straightforward cause-and-effect relationships, instant returns, and as a result they specialize in disappointment, which sinks in as bitterness, cynicism, defeatism, knowingness.
December 2016
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