The greatest revolutionary act you can make is to create a world around you where people care about and for each other, and help people think a little harder and imagine even more than they had before.
The truth is: Unless you are actually overthrowing the government, you are in a war of attrition and reform, as the old mindset moves out and hopefully isn’t able to pass on their hate as broadly as when they received it.
But that means the onus lies on us.
We have to learn, and grow, and pass our lessons on to the world around us more than those who share their hatred, and we have to make sure we aren’t just adopting a different form of hatred that’s framed like unity but functions more like division.
Our nation is a basin filled with hate and greed and selfish egoism, and as it drains it is our job to replace it with love and unity for the sake of our children, and the future of our world as a whole.
—david loret de mola
Flommist David Loret de Mola is a Grand Slam Poetry Champion of Sacramento with Sac Unified Slam Team and Zero Forbidden Goals who has represented the City of Sacramento in the National Poetry Slam, and 100 Thousand Poets for Change in Salerno, Italy. Copyright © 2019 David Loret de Mola. Pictured: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Girl in Tub, 1913, source.
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