You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
It seemed an appropriate text for another day of horrendous violence in our violence-saturated world. I sat quietly, stunned, for a full five minutes after I read it.
Watch out, Dean, for what you say. You do not own a gun, but what if your words help accelerate our spiral into anarchy?
