Here's an old passage that is still relevant when thinking about how to survive under Trump. When Poland was 'liberated' from the Nazis by Russia a new authoritarianism took hold. Poet/writer Czeslaw Milosz observed the responses of his countrymen to the new regime -- adopt fully, go along to get along, or resist. Of himself, he wrote ...
Here's an old passage that is still relevant when thinking about how to survive under Trump. When Poland was 'liberated' from the Nazis by Russia a new authoritarianism took hold. Poet/writer Czeslaw Milosz observed the responses of his countrymen to the new regime -- adopt fully, go along to get along, or resist. Of himself, he wrote ...
"My own decision proceeded, not from a functioning of the reasoning mind, but from a revolt of the stomach. A man may persuade himself, by the most logical reasoning, that he may greatly benefit his health by swallowing live frogs; and, thus rationally convinced, he may swallow a first frog, then a second; but at the third his stomach will revolt. In the same way, the growing influence of [Russian rule permeating culture as well as government] on my way of thinking came up against the resistance of my whole nature."
Here's an old passage that is still relevant when thinking about how to survive under Trump. When Poland was 'liberated' from the Nazis by Russia a new authoritarianism took hold. Poet/writer Czeslaw Milosz observed the responses of his countrymen to the new regime -- adopt fully, go along to get along, or resist. Of himself, he wrote ...
"My own decision proceeded, not from a functioning of the reasoning mind, but from a revolt of the stomach. A man may persuade himself, by the most logical reasoning, that he may greatly benefit his health by swallowing live frogs; and, thus rationally convinced, he may swallow a first frog, then a second; but at the third his stomach will revolt. In the same way, the growing influence of [Russian rule permeating culture as well as government] on my way of thinking came up against the resistance of my whole nature."
-- The Captive Mind (1951)
With Trump, I am at the puking frogs stage.