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Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times | Are.na
From the places that you have been instructed to ignore or rendered unable to see come the stories that change the world, and it is here that culture has the power to shape politics and ordinary people have the power to change
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It’s also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
almost all the inviolable, incontrovertible-seeming assumptions of our society can be understood not as inevitable facts of life, but as stories.