The Absence of Happy Endings.

What do you suppose would the aliens dislike the most of your work?

The absence of happy endings. The lack of pedagogical instruction or self-help. What if I’m not empowering anybody? What if we agree to tell the hard stories and acknowledge that the truth may not set us free or empower us but only render us more disturbed? What if our class or race or ethnicity or citizenship or group identity does not absolve us of the damage we do to others? What if we are responsible for every bomb dropped in our name? How does consciousness change the story? I assume we all die alone. I assume the ways in which we learn, change, evolve, and exist matter.

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