5/21/2023 0 Comments Rebecca solnit on hope![]() ![]() REBECCA SOLNIT: Good morning or afternoon over there in New York.īOB GARFIELD: So the dark in your title Hope in the Dark isn’t about the darkest hours but about the impossibility of knowing the future, which you say dependably surprises and rewards us. Wouldn’t it be swell, Bob, for you to speak to Rebecca Solnit? Rebecca, welcome to On the Media. Occasioned by the invasion of Iraq, the book became so popular lately with the demoralized demographic that Solnit herself has only one copy remaining to her name. Solnit is impatient with despair, not only because it paralyzes political action but because she says it is historically indefensible. ![]() She was referring to the book of encouragement and call to action by left-wing activist/philosopher Rebecca Solnit, who expresses optimism about the future based not on naïveté or denial but on lessons of history. This is when producer Alana Casanova-Burgess chimed in, Bob, have you read Hope in the Dark? It’s hard to drag my sorry self out of bed in the morning. And I said, it’s just that we’re all so f. In our editorial meeting this week, even through the speaker phone connecting me with the team in New York, the staff detected in my voice a slight - suicidal despondency. ![]() ![]() I’m Brooke Gladstone.īOB GARFIELD: And I’m Bob Garfield. ![]()
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