Silence is the Question

Listening is an Act of Love

Posts tagged Consumerism

Aug 1
“Individuals need not believe in [the system], but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate [it] in silence … For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.” “The Power of the Powerless” by Vaclav Havel

Mar 6
“White liberals think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves.” Paul Farmer

This is so so true of so many people I know. 

Jun 12

May 30

The tragic aspect of this mindless deference is that it’s reflected even more dramatically in the curriculum itself.