Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: The idea that walking away is childish and unpr...

Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: The idea that walking away is childish and unproductive is predicated on the inability to imagine anything but a walking away from, never a walking away toward—never that there might exist another destination. The walking away is not nihilism, it’s not cynicism, it’s not doing nothing— it’s a form of engagement more honest, more soul-affirming, than anything the system was ever prepared to offer.