throat i do not fight fascists because i will when i fight fascists because they are fascists chris glenn greenwald recently spoke about how one man at a word snowden has changed the world and that that singular capacity is the antidote to defeatism what do you regard as the antidote to defeatism. you can't talk about hope if you don't resist and edward snowden has certainly resisted heroic. you know we must carry out the good or at least the good in so far as we can determine it and then we have to let it go the buddhists call it karma i come out of the seminary that's what faith is it's the belief that it goes somewhere even if empirically everything around you seems to point in the other direction once we give up once we stop resisting then we're finished not only finished in a kind of literal sense but finished spiritually and morally and so i fall back in moments of distress like this on that belief which is one that i you know learned in some manner that we. you know we have a capacity and an ability and a moral duty to fight against forces of evil even if it looks almost certain that those f