“Change,” he said in the taped message, “comes about not through instrumental reason, that meaning, you do something in order to get something to happen, but rather because you cannot stand by, and so you act, in order to be what you are. The critical reason we’re failing, in my view, is because we buy into the idea that they can oppress us by sending us to prison. While in fact, power resides in our fear of going to prison, not the act of doing it in itself. Once we realize it’s all about fear,
Once we realize it’s all about fear, we have that lightbulb moment. It’s not what they do to us, it’s how we choose to react that determines their power.” recorded at HM Prison Wayland. https://braveneweurope.com/chris-hedges-burn-the-planet-and-lock-up-the-dissidents
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Chris Hedges: Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents - Brave New Europe

Climate activists are being locked behind bars while our rulers burn down the world, exemplified by the fossil-fuelled annihilation of Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years [...]

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