actually, i am totally discouraged. okay, i’m thinking about all this (and many other things, hell, politics, ethics, corporate ownership of educational institutions, ah okay, people starving… the resurgence of fundamentalisms… hell, so many things)… and yah. i wish i were, i wish i were, i wish i were… more hopeful.
and i am not in my early 20’s and i have been fighting this battle for a long fucking time. early on, someone --a mentor, if you will-- warned me this was coming. and me, naively, said, no, there will be a new world and it will be better, kinder, smarter… than the old world. hah.
that poor kid. he believed, did he not.
