#joni murphy

"What else are we going to do but struggle?" Pamella replied. "It's a choice between hope and hopelessness. We aren't against the mayor because we support his opponents. We don't want tea as a solution to coffee, or pig proposals to solve horse problems. If a seal were to somehow become the mayor according to the rules as they are now, that wouldn't be victory. The struggle has always been life and death, I suppose, but it feels different now, in that we--you and I and everyone we care for--won't have a home that's not underwater, we won't have un-poisoned food or air if we don't struggle. Some say the rich will feel the rising seas, too, but you can be sure they'll be the last to get wet, by which time it will be too late for the rest of us. We can't keep running in their hamster wheel."

She felt the familiar intoxication of complex thinking, the dangerous allure of a mind high.

Binary thinking was oppressive and destroys the intrapersonal dialogic grey space, they all agreed.