05 September 2005

- The Revolution Begins at Home -

Does anyone have any experience confronting politicians at town meetings? My Republican House member is holding a meeting near our house on Saturday and I want to make him feel the heat in the most effective way possible. Spouse and Judi J. are already planning on going. Of course we'll dress in patriotic colors. But any other suggestions—particularly rhetorical ones—would be greatly appreciated.

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope