It's not OK for me if I'm despairing and angry and bitter to go out in public. I feel that it's a spirit task. I also do my homework. The inhumanity of people here and elsewhere in the world, the injustice, mostly not recognized or acknowledged. The more you know, the more it's really easy to feel overwhelmed.
Some progressives engage in a kind of internecine warfare, a rhetoric of purity.
I can't talk to you, you smoke. I can't talk to him, he voted for Gore. It's not about my mind. There are a lot of Stalinists out there. A lot of people like to feel that they're right.