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A review by butchriarchy
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times by Paul Rogat Loeb
Extremely liberal, which was to be expected (the editor's remark on his slight uneasiness regarding Arundhati Roy's essay got a bit of a laugh from me), but still, many of the strides were encouraging to read. I found it may have the unintended repercussion of foisting even more pressure on the ordinary citizen to enact sizable change despite its reassurance that we should just do whatever we can (meanwhile you have stories of ordinary citizens doing even more than that), which is a recipe for disaster for us altruistic folk with anxiety, but nonetheless, it's an encouraging read, as well as a good motivator to educate oneself on matters happening around the world as they are frequently consequential to all of us, and even with that truth, it's imperative that we listen to the suffering of all peoples, aside from it possibly affecting us as well. Another critique from me is that the penultimate essay by Amos Oz had a very Zionist lilt to it.