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-When asked what was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_qjUoeC-rg|the hardest thing Thich Nhat Hanh practices]], he said: "Not allow yourself to be overwhelmed by despair".
+When asked what was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_…-rg|the hardest thing Thich Nhat Hanh practices]], he said: "Not allow yourself to be overwhelmed by despair".
 It is such a powerful statement, it deserved to be repeated.
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 Even if the advice is good and not judgmental, but there is nobody willing and able to follow it, it is a useless distraction. Share the idea in a safe place (I'm putting it on my wiki right now) by all means, but don't overwhelm activists with your talking if you're not willing and able to put your your money where your mouth is or walk the walk.
+=== Don't expect to win ===
+This is the hardest truth: we're not going to win this, at least not very quickly. I'm not able to sugercoat it like Thay, so I'll just say it like it is: we're pretty fucked right now. As already mentioned in [[Fixing the world one bug at a time]] we should exhibit pessimism of intellect and optimism of will at the same time.
+If we look at a specific glaring wrong in the world: the genocide in Gaza, we can see how that applies. The Palestinians have been oppressed for over a hundred years, and freeing them means resisting the most advanced armies and propaganda machine the world has ever seen. We're not going to stop this machine in a Sunday afternoon over a cup of tea with some toots and some good intentions. As most of the resisters in WW2 didn't survive the war, it is more likely that any of us will be tortured to death by fascist than that we fully stop the oppression in our lifetimes. Or at least that's my pessimist intellect's estimation. But that's irrellevant.
+Likely failure doesn't mean at all that it is acceptable to do nothing.
+It does mean however, that it is acceptable to lose loudly. Like Hannie Schaft did in WW2 and like many others have done before and after her. At some point, it becomes inescapable from an ethical perspective to put our bodies in harms way
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