From “We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence” by David Dark
With most of my classes during the presidential election of 2016, I watched this marvel of a video. And we reached a general consensus that “What do you do with the mad that you feel?” is probably the kind of question we’d do well to put to anyone seeking public office. We should also put the question to ourselves as often as possible, answering it as honestly as we can when we do. It’s the question of our own reactivity, which is, of course, mirrored in the larger world. There is no effective facing down of dark forces out there till we face down the dark forces within. When we avoid this kind of self-examination, we strengthen, each in our own way, the movement of denialism that often seizes the levers of ultimate power in palaces, board rooms, and offices in Washington DC, and across the country.