The collective project of reorganizing the world
 

Boyer, Handbook of Disappointed Fate, 158-9: "We who work together toward the same end of a radical re-organization of the world do our best, think our hardest, write how we can and with what resources we have been given, but we also will often fail. We will fail to produce what we should, or to write or speak articulately enough, to reason clearly enough, to be always right, to be thoughtful or expansive enough, to be responsible at our work's distribution – but our failure is part of and fundamental to the collective project. We brave our errors in thought for the possibility that to see them demonstrated will allow others to get toward a rightness we missed. We brave clumsy writing or speaking, so that, even in a crude form, a necessary idea will emerge as material for others to refine. We brave our own incompleteness, too, with faith put in the collective project of understanding, there will be someone else (so many someone elses) who can do the work when we must leave it, whether it's from exhaustion, or from heartbreak, or from illness, or from the necessities of survival, or from death."

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