The Enemy Maker

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,…

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