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Tuesday, January 03, 2023

Our dystopia (Graham)

We’re all in this dystopia together. We created it. It’s born of human imagination and invention and desire every bit as much as the antidotes to it must be. It’s all bred from human curiosity and its desires. You can’t separate the disaster from the star. That’s why we are so enmeshed in it. That’s why it’s so desperately hard to even look in a mirror. There is no one else to look to but us, as this is all us, our doing, our going down one of the possible roads we were given, one of the aspects of mind, one of the many options in imagination. Greed played its huge role; and hubris; and the desire for a shortcut. But also curiosity, the inextinguishable human love of invention, of the "new."

Jorie Graham

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