Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 256 pages Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. |
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... deeply felt idealism, on the side of democracy and decency, say, against tyranny and genocide. Think, for example, of the mentality that would make it possible to participate in the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo in World War II. The ...
... deeply evil . Think of the “ Aryan ” child raised as a good German by his loving parents in the 1930s , for ex- ample , or a " white " child in a slave - owning family in our own country before the Civil War , each learning patterns of ...
... deeply connected . The first is suggested by the body of this introduction and could be put as a question : How , as individual minds and persons , might we come to un- derstand the ways that the empire of force is always present in our ...
... deeply meant and alive—speech above all that understands the empire of force and knows how not to respect it—should be placed at the center of the amendment's protections. The third line of thought relates to the writing, reading, and ...
... deeply shaped by the internal processes I de- scribe, of which silence is an essential element. What I am saying then—and it is in one sense perfectly obvious—is that not all of our speech is of the same quality or nature, indeed not of ...
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