Hope Is a Quest

Progressive educator, media pioneer, and visionary thinker John Bredin has produced his 11th, and perhaps most unclassifiable book with "Hope is a Quest." As in other books by Bredin, the writing itself is designed as a project to enhance subjectivity, keep alive cultural memory, and release social imagination. All the while it ponders the creation of a more just, loving, and peaceful world that might be. Perhaps a sign of the agency produced by the very writing of this text, during...
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Progressive educator, media pioneer, and visionary thinker John Bredin has produced his 11th, and perhaps most unclassifiable book with "Hope is a Quest." As in other books by Bredin, the writing itself is designed as a project to enhance subjectivity, keep alive cultural memory, and release social imagination. All the while it ponders the creation of a more just, loving, and peaceful world that might be. Perhaps a sign of the agency produced by the very writing of this text, during its creation John emerged on the lecture circuit in NYC--his "Democratic Transformations Victory Tour"--to promulgate the need for radical transformation of our education system, media, and politics. Amazingly, he also found himself in a documentary film about JFK, and featured two show biz icons--Pat Cooper and Joe Franklin--as guests on his weekly television show. This is also very much a psychotherapeutic work, designed to help its author (and perhaps its readers) better synthesize, think about, and articulate patterns of meaning and possibility in our fast-paced, corporate-dominated society where spaces for open thought and reflection are narrowing.Bredin hopes that his sense-making project of verbal weaving, braiding, and forging connections might prove helpful as an act of political resistance to the unfair status quo (1%), as together we build the world's first humanistic democracy.