The Port Huron Statement: The Visionary Call of the 1960s Revolution | 
Past senselessness permits present brutality; present brutality is prelude to future deeds of still greater inhumanity; that is the moral history of the twentieth century, from the First World War to the present. A half-century of accelerating destruction has flattened out the individual‘s ability to make moral distinction; it has made people understandably give up; it has forced private worry into public silence.
Some poignant thoughts from 1962 before 2018‘s State of the Union. #politics
Theoretic chaos has replaced the idealistic thinking of old–and, unable to reconstitute theoretic order, men have condemned idealism itself. Doubt has replaced hopefulness–and men act out of a defeatism that is labelled realistic.
pickReading this in 2018 is simultaneously inspiring and devastating. It‘s inspiring that a bunch of 20-something students produced a document which catalyzed a movement that changed the Western world. It‘s tragic that the inequalities and injustices they hoped to eradicate have proved so resilient. The ambition of the Port Huron Statement is matched only by its naïve idealism, but I wish we still had such high hopes; goodness knows we need them.
