Nous sommes si intelligents que nous sommes inadaptés et que nous nous suicidons. - Derrick Jensen

Par où commencer ? Par remettre en question les croyances irréfléchies, qui sont les véritables autorités de cette culture. Une fois que vous aurez entamé ce processus de questionnement, mon travail sera terminé : une fois que ces questions commencent à être posées, elles sont inarrêtables. La suite dépend de vous.

In South Carolina, a man was murdered and his stepdaughter whipped because she’d had the insolence to “embarrass” a white family by bearing the child of one of its members.

Perception is of course intimately tied to preconception. I have, as is true for each of us, a pair of cultural eyeglasses that will determine to greater or lesser degree what will be in focus, what will be a blur, what gives me a headache, and what I cannot see. I was raised a Christian — the mythology resides deep in my bones — and I know the story of Jesus nearly as well as I know my own. Until my late teens I couldn’t see some of the darker acts perpetrated in the name of Christ. I still feel a twinge each time I say, “I am not a Christian,” a slight apprehension that I may have gone too far. Sometimes I look up, a small part of my upbringing still telling me that my blasphemy will call forth a bolt of lightning from the sky.