Hint: Patterns – Legacies – Self

We are both governed and we govern.  We govern ourselves, to some extent. We are also governed, in some extent. When we don’t know histories, and the history of our own ancestries and legacies, we are ignorant, then of certain patterns and therefore reasons and connections. We are connected.

The problem is ….. #2

In the present times, the nation-state and its corporate-military structures hold life into place with discourses.  As humans, we respond to it.  When we live in resistance to certain rules of language, concepts and positions in relation to identity and place and self and community, we find out that assimilating … Continue Reading The problem is ….. #2

Quote by John Dower & my comments: Racism, the Pacific War and thinking through complexities

“The problem of racism is often approached as if it were a one-way street named White Supremacism. That is understandable, since whites themselves coined the phrase, imposed their supremacy over most of the globe and most of the darker races, and spent over four centuries writing about the inferiority of … Continue Reading Quote by John Dower & my comments: Racism, the Pacific War and thinking through complexities