I looked up. We had entered the city. I was in one of manyvehicles on the highway. The overpasses and underpasseswere filled with cars reflecting the sun. It was a beautifulday. I felt perhaps the same exhilaration of movement andmachines as Marinetti. It was the Kantian sublime, triggeredby cars and concrete. I was overwhelmed with beauty andhorror. Then it hit me. The world had already ended. We hadpoisoned the Earth. There was no hope. Our planet lay onits deathbed, drifting into oblivion, and we were driving onit. The apocalypse had passed with little notice, and we hadentered the long, hard dénouement of human civilization. Itwas a strong, strange feeling, and it stuck with me.
Lincoln recognized that democracy is an ongoingexperiment. Slavish dedication to dated documents will dous little good. We must always be prepared, like Lincoln, torethink our political practices. And just as Lincoln saw in the1860s that the political practices of the 1770s needed revising,we too can forge ahead into further births of freedom bycontinually developing the unfinished work of democracy.
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Although we cannot just will the unforeseen intoexistence, we can create the circumstances where itcan emerge. If we guarantee collective, free inquiry, wecreate the possibility for beliefs and worldviews to collideand combine. There are no rules for this collision andcombination beyond simply guaranteeing that freedom.
It is only through total freedom of thought and theacceptance of all non-harmful behaviors that we cancreate the circumstances for a better world to emerge. Ofcourse, the sort of optimism that would believe a betterworld is even possible has gone horribly out of style. Thefuture is not what it used to be. The Utopian visions ofthe nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given way todystopian dread. In the Middle Ages, the world was seenas a temporary stopping place where humanity sufferedfor a bit while awaiting final judgment. To the medievalmind, perfection existed before the fall and would onlycome again after the apocalypse. But following theEnlightenment, and particularly for many nineteenth andtwentieth century artists and radicals, perfection becamean Earthly possibility. 2ff7e9595c
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