TO CREATE AN ENEMY Start with an empty canvas Sketch in broad outline the forms of men, women, and children. Dip into the unconscious well of your own disowned darkness with a wide brush and stain the strangers with the sinister hue of the shadow. Trace onto the face of the enemy the greed, hatred,…
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Nobody Likes Change – Willful Blindness
“Nobody likes change because the status quo feels safer, it’s familiar, we’re used to it. Change feels like redirecting the riverbed: effortful and risky. It’s so much easier to imagine that what we don’t know won’t hurt us.” —Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril (2011), p. 91