Dimitris Hall

...ο σημαντικότερος στόχος του διαφωτισμού έχει

...ο σημαντικότερος στόχος του διαφωτισμού έχει επιτευχθεί: ο μέσος πολίτης διαθέτει τώρα πια σχεδόν ακαριαία πρόσβαση σε πληροφοφίες για γεγονότα από κάθε γωνιά του πλανήτη. Ταυτόχρονα όμως, έχουμε επίσης αναγκαστεί να μάθουμε κάτι μάλλον απροσδόκητο: δεν ενδιαφέρεται ιδιαίτερα.

Προτού απογοητευούμε από τις συμφορές που υποτίθεται ότι μας περιβάλλουν, καλό είναι να θυμόμαστε ότι τελικά οι ειδήσεις αποτελούν μια επιλογή από όσα συμβαίνουν γύρω μας -- τίποτα περισσότερο, τίποτα λιγότερο.
Η χώρα μας δεν είναι μόνο ένα κομμένο χέρι, μια ακρωτηριασμένη ηλικιωμένη, τρία νεκρά κορίτσια σε ένα υπόγειο, η δυσχερής θέση ενός υπουργού, τα τρισεκατομμύρια χρέους, η διπλή αυτοκτονία σε έναν σιδηροδρομικό σταθμό και η θανατηφόρα καραμπόλα πέντε αυτοκινήτων κοντά σε κάποια ακτή.
Είναι επίσης το σύννεφο που κινείται απαρατήρητο αυτή τη στιγμή πάνω από το καμπαναριό μιας εκκλησίας, η ήρεμη σκέψη στο μυαλό ενός γιατρού που ετοιμάζεται να κάνει ένεση στο γυμνό μπράτσο ενός ασθενούς, τα ποντικάκια δίπλα στους θάμνους, το παιδάκι που σπάει το τσόφλι ενός σφιχτοβρασμένου αυγού ενώ η μητέρα του το κοιτάζει τρυφερά, το πυρηνικό υποβρύχιο που περιπολεί τα θαλάσσια σύνορα με αποτελεσματικότητα και γενναιότητα, το εργοστάσιο που παράγει τα πρώτα κομμάτια μιας νέας μηχανής και η σύζυγος που, παρά τις απίστευτες προκλήσεις και τα σκληρά λόγια, ανακαλύπτει νέα αποθέματα υπομονής και συγχώρεσης.
Όλα αυτά συνιστούν επίσης την πραγματικότητα. Οι ειδήσεις που μαθαίνουμε για μια χώρα δεν είναι η ίδια η χώρα.

Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.

Do it or don't do it.

It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or wri

Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.

Do it or don't do it.

It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Resistance is like the Alien or the Terminator or the shark in Jaws. It cannot be reasoned with. It understands nothing but power. It is an engine of destruction, programmed from the factory with one object only: to prevent us from doing our work. Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable. Reduce it to a single cell and that cell will continue to attack.
This is Resistance's nature. It's all it knows.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.

Do it or don't do it.

It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or wri

Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.

Do it or don't do it.

It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Resistance is like the Alien or the Terminator or the shark in Jaws. It cannot be reasoned with. It understands nothing but power. It is an engine of destruction, programmed from the factory with one object only: to prevent us from doing our work. Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable. Reduce it to a single cell and that cell will continue to attack.
This is Resistance's nature. It's all it knows.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.