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Origami in the Age of Fascism
Why Hope For Tomorrow Always Begins in the Present Moment
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It’s a quirky little word created by a group of protesters in Hong Kong to describe the paper cranes they made to raise awareness of the travesties occurring in their country in late 2019. Over five years ago, they sat in one of the most public spaces in the region and made escalating rings of thousands of folded origami wonders to object, in their unique way, to the oppression they were battling. In the middle of an ongoing confrontation between the world's largest government, and millions of citizens challenging power to bring new freedoms to their people, these revolutionaries created art.
Hong Kong has since been effectively taken over by the CCP and lost much of the independence it once had. I don’t know what will happen in the Pearl of the Orient, or how those who gathered back then to raise their voices against the repression in their land fared. But today, as America struggles with its own identity, I’m reminded of this idea:
No matter where you are, you are here.
This day, this moment, this space. Wherever you happen to be in life right now, you are here. I’m reminded of this because change doesn’t happen in the past; that’s history written in stone. And it doesn’t happen in…