“Everyone seems to have dire predictions about and expectations of the future. In lieu, apparently, of having any direct effect on it. Those who favor dire predictions are invariably committed to passively insuring their arrival. Those who, on the other hand, intend invention rather than prediction, will know something of what it means to be or become human. We are not here as helpless predictors of the dire catastrophes that our absence from mutual agency and concern guarantee. Rather, we must be here actively, creatively, and intelligently… forging the futures we were born to become. No one should be the cheerleader of dead futures, we have confused this role with activism, and it is a lethal confusion we must immediately dispose of. Entirely.”

— an a i