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If We Cannot Transcend The Conflict, We Will Be Destroyed By It
I listened to a discussion tonight that The Duran had with Dennis Kucinich. His voice sounded old and it made me realize how long it had been since I heard him speak. For a moment, I started to think that age had caught up with him and the events of the day had grown beyond him. Then he started speaking from the wisdom of a lifetime of experience, and from the convictions of a lifetime of grappling with moral and spiritual issues, and I realized he was even wiser than I had previously given him credit for.
Even back in the 1990s, Kucinich was head and shoulders above most any other politician out there. How much more of a rarity he is in this moment. He had a command of the facts, but more so, he was able to contextualize them to explain our history and our current crises. It made me frightened for the situation we are in at this moment, with a leader in charge who is undeniably not up to the problems that face us. Once again I wondered if there might not be some validity to the lesser evil argument. And then Kucinich spoke these words, and it reminded me of my core conviction, that we are going to have to transcend the current means of dealing with the existential problems we now face if we are to survive:
“The dialectic of conflict is made possible by the limitations of human thinking. …the question raised…