” On the woof and warp of reality, tangled though it may be, new
cloth is being woven from threads of many radically different
colors…The process is anything but spectacular and it mostly
happens at the local level, where across the world a thousand
and one new forces are emerging. They emerge from the bottom
up and the inside out….they shoulder the task of reconceiving
democracy. Nourishing it with popular participation and reviving
the battered traditions of tolerance, mutual assistance and
communion with nature”….(p. 321)
“Living wherever, living however, living whenever, each person
contains many possible persons. Every day, the ruling system
places our worst characteristics at center stage, condemning
our best to languish behind the backdrop. The system of power
is not in the least eternal. We may be badly made, but we’re not
finished, and it’s the adventure of changing reality and changing
ourselves that makes our blip in the history of the universe
worthwhile…” (p. 329)
Eduardo Galeano (2000)
Upside down: A primer for the looking-glass world
15
A Chromatic Story
learning to listen
