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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... empty almost everything we say actually is.” This struck me powerfully at the time and lives in my mind still. Later in life I happened to spend several years as an active participant in the life of the Society of Friends, or Quakers ...
... empty space or time, an absence of words; it is a state or condition that must be attained, by work and art and discipline, and it must be used, and used well. It is a crucial part of what we mean by the engagement of the whole mind ...
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