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A LETTER FROM

EVE

RISE DANCE DISRUPT!
I think we must live now on the edge of incomprehensible madness, refusing
to give up and refusing to pretend. Dancing on the precipice of annihilation
while passionately encouraging and welcoming the new paradigm. This is most
difficult in a world, in a system that has thoroughly indoctrinated us in a refusal
to think, in the sound bite, in yes and nos, likes and unlikes, with us or against
us pathology, in idiotic, consumable brandable, reductionist absolutes. To be an
enthusiastic absurdist requires embracing ambiguity, insecurity, and it means
looking at the predicament we are in head on. It means leaping and assuming
you will fall, dancing in the chaotic impossible passionate possible.
So we must learn the art and practice of disruption. We must release the
tentacles of our false securities and interrupt the world as we know it. We
must assume that anywhere we live or anything we are doing can change or
disintegrate on a dime and we must practice changing and letting it go. Living
as if there is no future but the one we are creating. Nothing guaranteed but
our willingness to live as pioneers of a new consciousness and way. And we
must become disrupters. That is the power of creative resistance. Interrupting
business as usual, taking stands that forfeit
our acceptance or economic elevation, risking
disapproval and controversy, participating in
actions that loosen our grip on the suicidal
givens and push the tyrants to fall. Disrupters,
fighting and dancing with all our might for life
over comfort.

– Eve Ensler