When I think about the future, it is by looking at the darkness that I actually find my way to the most hope, because I can see that we are headed toward a time that will be like many of the most consequential times we’ve studied. The times that generate the heroes that we name buildings after and write about in history books and look up to are not good times. Like, nobody ever became an inspiring historical figure by just kind of doing their thing during a period of stability and calm and consensus and kindness. It is precisely in moments like this that more is called for from us, and the more gets burned down around us in this awful period that we’re living through right now during the Trump administration, the more we have to/ get to build things that will stand for the next century.