Perhaps you die in your sleep without ever doing anything. Perhaps you change and mellow out with age, looking back and being so glad that you didn't make an ugly mess of things. It is an outlook that leaves the future an ambiguous mixture of choice and chance, room for possibly necessary war, frail hopes of peace, which seems as it should be. He protested the St. Patrick's Day parade exclusion of gays in South Boston, entering the parade with a sign. Tom writes regularly on the Internet, and is committed to investigating the origins of AIDS, which he believes has extensive suspicious circumstances hinting at human involvement.
Life philosophy is an ambiguous battle of inner conflict.
I advocate that we pursue social progress with conscience, but also that we must do whatever is necessary to secure the necessary results, mixing conscience with clear-eyed realism. Trying to see the world clearly, without myth or delusion of any kind, is a great passion.