Haunt the dreams of your comrades, and the nightmares of your enemies; live in a future that never came—be a specter, a memory, and a herald. Remind them that the current state was not inevitable until it came to be. Do not occupy yourself with the question of why this very possible future failed, leave the victorious to grope for answers. Be the question, and do not heed your impotence. A ghost has no need for material presence or action, you just need to shimmer.

FICTION: Potent metaphor for characters/movements embodying failed futures — ghosts as political or narrative forces that unsettle the given order without needing material power. SEED: Could fuel an essay on failed futures and how unrealized possibilities exert ongoing influence, or on the power of symbolic/spectral resistance in contrast to action.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 1037