A Moment for Desire |
Photo: Laura Flanders.
I’ve been thinking about moments. Under the heavy onslaught of the last year, the moments of relief I’ve felt in these last twelve months have felt slight. Resistance — I’ve seen lots of it — but it has felt flimsy against the heft of aircraft carriers in the Caribbean and heavy-tread bulldozers in Gaza. The heartfelt words on a million protest signs seem no match for the cruel men’s Projects and choice-crushing cuts.
What’s a raucous moment of resistance against official silence and the solidity of a prison wall? What’s the wash of a sense of solidarity against the prospect of crushed tundra or more concrete on a cajun marsh?
John Berger reminded me. Writing in 2006, the British art critic, writer, artist, and poet wrote that even as a powerful new economic and military global tyranny was being established, civil society was discovering new ways to rebel. As........