After Bush was elected in 2000 we lost our spark, our spontaneity, our sacred sense of mission. We developed into a bunch of whiners, cowards and knee-jerk naysayers. Our books, magazines and intellectual luminaries stopped communicating big ideas. We disconnected from our style, freedom and self-generated sense of cool and turned into a bunch of Apollonian logic freaks - caged by our own cerebral vigilance.

Now, in this Obama moment, can we come alive again? Can we start taking risks, kicking ass, having fun? Can we become spiritually ablaze again?

Yes we can and we will. But only if we leap over the dead body of the old left and never, ever look back.

- Kono Matsu