Please let me know what your opinion is of the following information: ********CONFESSIONS OF A EUROPEAN******* **A EUROPEAN CONFRONTS OTHER EUROPEANS** Let us look at ourselves, if we can bear to, and see what is becoming of us. First we must face that unexpected revelation, the strip-tease of our humanism. There you can see it, quite naked, and its not a pretty sight. It was nothing but an ideology of lies, a perfect justification for pillage; its honeyed words, its affectation of sensibility were only alibis for our aggressions. A fine sight they are too, the believers in nonviolence, saying that they are neither executioners nor victims. Very well then; if youre not victims when the government which youve voted for, when the army in which your younger brothers are serving without hesitation or remorse, have undertaken race murder, you are, without a shadow of doubt, executioners. And if you choose to be victims and to risk being put in prison for a day or two, you are simply choosing to pull your irons out of the fire. But you will not be able to pull them out; theyll have to stay there till the end. - Jean Paul Sartre, in his Preface to Frantz Fanons The Wretched of the Earth
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:22:28 +0000
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