May 12, 2003
Notable quote
Printable Version | [eMail this article!] |One of our community, Erika, sent in this quote. It seems totally appropriate to the issues we've been discussing. Thank you Erika for sending it in.
Excerpted from A Chorus of Stones; The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin.
"There are many ways we have of standing outside ourselves in ignorance. Those who have learned as children to become strangers to themselves do not find this a difficult task. Habit has made it natural not to feel. To ignore the consequences of what one does in the world has become ordinary. And this tendency is encouraged by a social structure that makes fragments of real events. One is never allowed to see the effects of what one does. But this ignorance is not entirely passive. For some, blindness becomes a kind of refuge, a way of life that is chosen, even with stubborn volition, and does not yield easily even to visible evidence."