Desiring Machine

I have a confession. I have been cynical. Deeply cynical. As a strong holdout for Hillary I have had my doubts about Obama. Even been reserved in my support. But in the back of my heart I get it, I get the optimism, the guarded hope for the future. This nation has been disrupted and beaten down for so many years. Long before Bush, the spirit of this country was hushed and beaten into a submissive, bitter cynical mode. I stand here now ready to believe in the future. Ready to believe in Obama, ready to believe in the greatness of a nation renewed again.

What has brought me to this? Well it has something to do with these two videos.

I would much rather embrace the spirit of the latter and keep at arms length the spirit of the former.

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
We shall overcome because Carlyle is right—”No lie can live forever.”
We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right—”Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.”
We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right—
Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne.
Yet that scaffold sways the future.
And behind the dim unknown stands God,
Within the shadow keeping watch above his own.