what I have learned from giving myself over to a structure of power, from living within its grim vision and helping to cannibalize the people and places from which I came, is that small impulses and interactions have the power to lead us back toward humanity, and heeding them can be a means of extricating ourselves from systems of thought and policy that perpetuate detachment. We can do this in spite of all the mechanisms that have been devised to keep us wedded to individual and nationalistic self-interest. As obvious as it might seem, to truly and completely reject a culture of violence, to
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