The Genesis of Guts
THE GENESIS OF GUTS 1 FOREMENTIONS (Foreword & Aforementioned) OVER THE YEARS A VACUUM HAS REMAINED UNFILLED… “The critical issues of our time are neither Left nor Right, neither male nor fe- male, neither black nor white. The challenge for new millennium activists is to find the courage to let go of all their old orthodoxies […] and to commit to a “ruthless criticism of all that exists.” And after that, the big challenge is to bring revolutionary consciousness and contestation back into the modern world […].” —Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam, 1999 “The past [fifty] years have demonstrated that uncontrolled economic power de- stroys the organic basis of human society, causing insecurity, depletion of earn- ings, the unraveling of family connections, the rise of inequality, poverty, vio- lence and crime, and the malignant neglect of our social and natural habitat. We make things worse by blaming each other, attacking symptoms rather than causes, abandoning our principles and ideals, and attempting an impossi- ble return to the past […we need] a more intelligible picture of our world and a more penetrating diagnosis of our malady [… showing] how efforts at reform, including the counterculture and mainstream liberalism, failed not because of unattainable goals but because of reliance on a false map of reality—a map shared with today’s conservatives. Once this map is discarded, we regain our ability to imagine a far better and more hopeful future.” —Charles Reich, Opposing The System, 1995 “If we are to escape our present downward and destructive course, we must learn from the failure of past efforts at reform, revolution, and renewal.
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