how and why many feel discouragement, is to begin to inform ourselves with a perspective that releases energies for change beyond the moment of stalemate and defeat. To rebuild a culture, and the political- economy that sustains it, is a monumental task, but it is not impossible. In any broader historical perspective, history is a record of repeated, enormous, society-shaking change, both in our own country and elsewhere. Change always seems impossible before it happens. In the immediate future, there is need for a strategy that “walks on two legs.” First, so difficult is the pain of many people that ameliorative actions are important. But there should be no confusion: A politics that emphasizes jobs and social programs for the poor is not a politics of the future. It is a humanitarian effort that also attempts to prevent the decay of the political economy into armed repression of violence bred from despair. We need LU oZ ’ I ’ i ’ I ■&SNW. 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We need also, as Walter Brueggemann reminds us, to grieve the “dying past-present” before we can experience the joy of the future. There is not only activist and intellectual, but also psychological and spiritual work to do, especially if the very idea of the “economy” is to transcend its current rooting in narrow, materialist goals. A positive vision is important not only for its own sake. Unless we develop an DECEMBER »1 L! OPEN 11 A.tA.-&?M, TVE5.—SAT. inspiring direction for rebuilding America, our politics may falter and turn to scapegoats both abroad and at home. There is anger in the land—anger caused by real pain. It must go somewhere, and a positive direction is our only real hope. In the nuclear age, developing a true “moral equivalent of war” may therefore be the only alternative we have. The idea that the people perish without vision may NOW SERVING BREAKFAST 6:30am WEEKDAYS 8am WEEKENDS MOVIES? THINK CLINTON FIRST AMP SOME. CALL IT,.. IT’S THE WINTER. 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