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- Credibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Credibility is a basic survival tool.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020