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Tip-Off #56 - Imagine Joy

Tip-Off #56 - Imagine Joy

"We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom." - Ursula K. Le Guin

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(Notes and reading at the end.)

Le Guin concludes, "We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable."

So with joy. Happiness is shallow. Joy is supposed to be more profound, like justice and freedom. A poet gives us another chance in “A Brief for the D…

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