"Theo Horesh is one of the guests on my show I have known personally, from the all too brief (in my opinion) time he happened to have been living in the Boston area.
I would run into him at a coffee shop in Cambridge and we would discuss many matters of note. He was very well read, could and would talk about practically anything and everything in a fearless manner, and I don't need to tell you that these are not traits to be found on every corner. He usually stands out in any room because of his tall height, his rock star hair, and bodybuilder physique.
But you would never necessarily want to bring any of this up to him because Theo is one of those old souls who truly wants to change the world for the better, and that is pretty much his raison d'être.
What I didn't know at that time when we were just being casual interlocutors was how deeply he has been a political activist for practically his entire adult life, and in many respects a successful one.
Interestingly for somebody as young as him he is, (he is an Xer and not a Boomer), he is like the archetypal 1960s activist who never compromised or gave up. I certainly can't see him burning out!
A great part of this could be his work not only in massage therapy for many years but also his serious devotion to spirituality, meditation practice in particular.
His goal is nothing short of the fullest development and improvement of the world over time, and he has a skill in working with others that is exceedingly strong.
While he has enormous integrity and ethical conscientiousness, he also understands how to work with the widest variety of other people, knowing what will bring the most possible outcome and he is certainly more good natured than a lot of politicos.
What I didn't know at that time was how deeply he has been a political activist, for practically his entire life. Since this would have been 2010 or '11 this was the time in my life when i had started my abandonment of most of politics and political life, (my only concession is that I do continue to vote, and when I say vote I mean viable candidates who are front runners) but all of this is a topic for another day) a project upon which I embarked around the Y2K. (Remember the Y2K?) But before then I had been an activist for who seemed to me the longest time, in the 80s and 90s. (It felt to me like fifty years which is one indication it was time to change course). I realized that art was much more important to me that politics and I had to make certain choices.
All of our journeys are very different which I believe our guest Theo would be the first to note.
Theo is also an author, and a prolific one who is on mission to write highly readable and accessible political prose on things that matter to everyday people.
His latest book, a combination of polemic and sober analysis called The Fascism This Time And The Global Future Of Democracy is to my mind a must read. Theo and I have disagreed sharply over the years, a fact which makes this episode sure to not be a boring one but on the main issue at hand he and I are decidedly united.
I decided to call this The Politics Show, ever mindful that there is an art to politics too, though whether the art is good or bad might be more important than is usual."
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