I'm Not So Much Against The War

If The Logic Of Capitalism Is "expand Or Die," Then Either It Has To Die Or The World Has To Die.

Part Of The Fun Of Writing, Touring, Teaching, Is Engaging With Real People About All Of It: What To Do Now, How To Build A Movement, Of Approaches To Teaching, Of Parenting - It's Exciting To Be In That Dialogue.

Now In My View, If You Were To Line Up The Presidents In The Order Of Who Made The Greatest Accomplishments, You'd Put Lyndon Johnson In That Arena With Both Roosevelts Probably, And [abraham] Lincoln And So On. But The Idea That Lyndon Johnson Was Operating As A Free Agent And Coming Up With These Ideas On His Own Is Nonsense.

The [vietnam] War's Gone On For Three Years. And We'd Thought We'd Ended It Because We'd Done Exactly What We Were Told And What We Told Ourselves We'd Had To Do. We Had A Majority. We Were Against The War And This Created A Crisis For Democracy And A Crisis For The Antiwar Movement.

To Me, Activism Requires You To Try Very Hard To Open Your Eyes To The World As It Is. See As Much As You Can, Knowing That Whatever You See Is Going To Be Partial. That You Possess A Partial Consciousness In An Infinite And Expanding Universe.