Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based on imperfect knowledge.” “The Constitution,” said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes “is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. The United States was inspired by the patriotism of the nation of Ukraine, previously inspired by the democracy of the United States. And Ukraine, the country blackmailed in the first impeachment of the last administration, captured the fascination of a previously defiant patriotic nation. The island was seized but weeks later the Moskva was sunk. “Russian warship get lost,” came the now legendary response from the twelve soldiers, although in far cruder language. The island has been known since classical antiquity, and during that era hosted a Greek temple to Achilles.” The cover of this issue is a postage stamp issued by the Ukrainian government. “Snake Island, also known as Serpent Island or Zmiinyi Island, is an island belonging to Ukraine located in the Black Sea, near the Danube Delta, with an important role in delimiting Ukrainian territorial waters. “ the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.”– Barack Obama The algorithms of Big Tech create artificial allies and adversaries. We have livestreamed our personal opinions, acquiesced to societal discord so that the burgeoning oligarchy can maintain the status quo. Hegemonic freedom no longer serves the greater good. As Demian Entrekin stated in The New Trinity, the “Me Generation” is dead. Hope is embodied in the faith in the community and the trust in the populace. But hope is the fuel that drives people to engage in an activity or plan. Some might say hope is what you do when you have no control. But we would do well to remember that when it comes down to it, hope is not just a strategy it is the only strategy America really has, and it should spur us to action, instead of remaining paralyzed by endless, realist, what-ifs…. “ope – standing alone, unmoored to any concrete action or contingency plans – is not a strategy. Exhausting, exhausting, exhausting.”Ģ022 has so many things on the cusp: voting rights, women’s rights, gun violence, addressing the climate crisis, the pandemic, and whether the Supreme Court will follow the roots of its past on all these issues or strike forward with a new partisan agenda. Full of growth, grief, change and survival. ![]() The Washington Post asked the nation for a word that represented 2021: “Relentless and disappointing. a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.Call for Submissions: Issue 9.2 Generations.Hope Was Relegated to the Upper Right Corner (art).What Injures the Hive, Injures the Bee (poem).
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