Eric Spamer

“Ideas have power, and while those who support them often dismiss that power, those who fear them recognize they can change the world . . . Ideas are seeds in that they are beginnings; if they succeed, they do so as they take on more tangible and concrete forms.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“Monsters—the bad kind—show us the way forwards, as well as pushing us back.” That the old world is dying is widely acknowledged and addressed. The old ways of doing things no longer fit who we have become: the systems fail, break, decay, fall into corruption; anachronistic school curriculums and journalistic and political norms, social roles and customs, rules, laws, and institutions don’t offer us equipment to face the realities of our time, whether they feel like cages or outgrown garments or broken tools. Poverty and displacement, degradation and alienation are byproducts of voracious, ruthless systems committed to inequality and indifferent to human rights and the rights of nature, which is to say that they are violence by other means, and sometimes they are the violence itself.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“Ideas have power, and while those who support them often dismiss that power, those who fear them recognize they can change the world.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“NIMBYism is so entrenched and rooted in nostalgia that you could propose new apartments on an abandoned lot and still have someone protest the building on the grounds that the abandoned lot “was the first place I got fingerbanged.”
― Conor Dougherty, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America