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⏲ Duration: 30 min 56 sec ✓ Published: 10-May-2011
Description: Despair is a black leather jacket in which everyone looks good, while hope is a frilly pink dress few dare to wear. Rebecca Solnit thinks this virtue needs to be redefined.nnHere she takes to our pulpit to deliver a sermon that looks at the remarkable social changes of the past half century, the stories the mainstream media neglects and the big surprises that keep on landing.nnShe explores why disaster makes us behave better and why it's braver to hope than to hide behind despair's confidence an
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