The Impossible Happens.

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When we say “the impossible happens,” we are not invoking catastrophe or collapse—though we acknowledge that we are already living amid the profound disruptions of the climate crisis and social unraveling. Rather, we mean something more radical and transformative.

The “impossible” refers to what existing systems and thought frameworks exclude—not merely because it is difficult, but because it violates the logic of the status quo. It lies outside our habitual ways of seeing, doing, and imagining. The impossible is that which we have not even permitted ourselves to conceive.

So when the impossible happens, it signals a break—a rupture—in the symbolic and political order. It marks the emergence of actions, solidarities, and truths that were previously foreclosed. It is not about “thinking outside the box,” but abolishing the box altogether and making space for new forms of life, justice, and care that are currently deemed unthinkable.

In a time of ecological devastation and widespread social inequality, the survival of the planet, health and dignity of all sentient beings require nothing less than the impossible. Not as utopia, but as a collective commitment to bring into being what our dominant system declares inconceivable.
 

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