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Numbness as metaphor for culture and resistance

One quote recalls an early personal vow to resist conformity, describing that struggle as feeling like anesthesia that never fully worked.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

Quotes by RuPaul

Power
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Nov 07, 2020

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.

Quotes by Parker Palmer

Another extends the metaphor outward, describing mass media and entertainment as a kind of cultural anesthesia dulling wider awareness.

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