"I think most of us were raised (? I was!) with a masculine tough-guy orientation that teaches you to be tough. There’s a notion that that’s rigourous and you can see things that way. So what I’m talking about is a kind of dictum, so to speak, that runs through U.S. custom, an embedded doctrine that things have to be hard, and that if you’re a softie, then you’re being cowardly or you’re not doing something that’s real. I didn’t want to be having a mild and accepting attitude toward something observed because that wouldn’t be uncovering what was accurate. But then it’s a trap where you might become hard-edged and tight. And you can see friends doing that, where they absolutely would not be able to look at something in a different way, to change." jacketmagazine/23/rosen-scal-iv.html
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 04:01:09 +0000
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