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Please reread Dan Savages quote.

Life is more than anger, resentment and retribution - however warranted it maybe.

We must live our lives with joy at the centre wherever we can find it. That’s the point.

What better expression of joy than to grieve the wrongs done and acknowledge the heroic efforts of those who attempt to right those wrongs? But reactionaries don’t want to celebrate how far we’ve come because they want to erase that progress!

“Everything was awesome” is dishonest obviously.

Yet pushing joy out from our shared story human story is dishonest too.

Activism without joy is ineffective for lasting change.

What is being fought for if not a life with more joy?

“We grieved in the morning, marched in the afternoon, and in the evening we danced”

- Gay activist Dan Savage on living through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

Let me tell you. 20 years ago I started making notes on human history, from everywhere, as far back as it goes. You have to do it slowly ... noone could bear to do it otherwise. Alexander was never great.

And yet, most of the people I've known have been pretty decent.
I'm thinking that most of it it has been due to a small group of power-hungry criminals.

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