Seeking the alternatives

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No social system, no historical vision, no theoretical totalization, no matter how powerful, can exhaust all the alternatives or practices that exist within its domain. There is always the possibility to transgress. … There’s always an opportunity to formulate an alternative, and not either to remain silent or to capitulate. … I think it’s the role of the intellectual always to be asserting the alternative.

Edward Said in Conversations with Edward Said by Tariq Ali