Makes me think about Edmund Lear’s ‘radical hope’ - an optimism ‘directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is’.
Or what historian Stephanie Coontz was saying here: we don’t yet know the heterosexuality we might want.
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Jay Owens
‘Coontz believes knowing the history of marriage and the family can help us distinguish what we actually want — attuning ourselves to “a wider range” of what is possible.
“We don’t yet know what those new melodies might be. The old ones keep playing and preventing us from creating new ones.”’
