Cool Petaluma Book Club
Our book for April, Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit, shows us why we should not give up hope, even though our future is uncertain. In fact, we should be committed to it in all its unknowability.
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Hope in the Dark
Solnit’s book is a manifesto for hope in place of the despair that engulfs many activists when their campaigns to make the world a better place or safeguard local values from globalized corporations do not bear immediate fruit.
Solnit advocates for embracing the darkness of an uncertain future and campaigning from the perspective that previously unforeseen changes are always possible.
In this book, she seeks to safeguard against the cultural amnesia in which people forget that previously unthinkable events changed history, such as obtaining suffrage for women after millennia of patriarchy. In addition, she emphasizes that no easy cause-and-effect relationship exists between activism and seeing changes realized. Instead, the path to change twists and turns, with many defeats as well as small victories.
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