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shuashwa18 's review for:
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
“We are living in an age of revolution, whether we will or no, and that America is the only Western nation with both the power and, as I hope to suggest, the experience that may help to make these revolutions real and minimize the human damage. Any attempts we make to oppose these outbursts of energy is tantamount to signing our death warrant.”
And there it is. In November 2024 I think we signed it. I speak in we’s because we’re all going to be affected negatively by this… aside from the billionaires who will lay claim to all we have and all we are. At this point, for humanity’s sake, I’m praying for an outburst that no one can ignore, that no one can oppose. And by 2050, I guess we’ll have it—environmental change that we cannot change back.
Incredible, incredible prose. Baldwin does here what he wishes all would do—confronting the fact of death with bravery, rising to the responsibility of life to look at reality squarely in the face. Read. This. NOW. And keep reading it—don’t just consume it, let it consume YOU, let it work its way through you and change you into something unknowable, a force of change yourself, plunging into the better future that YOU create.
And there it is. In November 2024 I think we signed it. I speak in we’s because we’re all going to be affected negatively by this… aside from the billionaires who will lay claim to all we have and all we are. At this point, for humanity’s sake, I’m praying for an outburst that no one can ignore, that no one can oppose. And by 2050, I guess we’ll have it—environmental change that we cannot change back.
Incredible, incredible prose. Baldwin does here what he wishes all would do—confronting the fact of death with bravery, rising to the responsibility of life to look at reality squarely in the face. Read. This. NOW. And keep reading it—don’t just consume it, let it consume YOU, let it work its way through you and change you into something unknowable, a force of change yourself, plunging into the better future that YOU create.