It is from this profound awareness of potential – the analysis, not of our narrow, trained, conscious minds, but of our deepest unconscious dreams - that we experience the feeling that “another world is possible”; this is, in a sense, humanity’s deepest urge, the very atom that defines us, uniting all cultures, defying all cultures, as being, though farmed, yet still human: our will to freedom, to brotherly and sisterly love of all human beings without exclusion, and to equality and justice, in spite of the obscene slaveries of the farms in which we have been bred; the feelings, in fact, which are such a fundamental part of almost every healthy human being’s instinctive thoughts, actions, and self-awareness that to give them names is to belittle them.
Is it “kind” to give food to a hungry child? Is it “activism” to feel that a prince who murders a pauper should be held to account? Is it “rebellious” for an abused child to refuse to smile on his father’s command? Whatever names we try to assign to such basic human drives, our labels fail to adequately encompass the complexity of these human minds which express, embody, and empower these drives, in a way no formal system yet defined can remotely aspire to, and from which the drives are born, whole, nameless, yet very real, as emergent properties, whose past is quite well known, yet whose futures will need to be experienced before they can be described.
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