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“It taught me that if you’re in conversation with the self, you can be in conversation with the world.”
Suleika Jaouad, The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

Omar El Akkad
“To maintain belief in what is commonly called the rules-based order requires a tolerance for disappointment. It’s not enough to subscribe to the idea that there exist certain inflexible principles derived from what in the parlance of America’s founding documents might be called self-evident truths, and that the basic price of admission to civilized society is to do whatever is necessary to uphold these principles. One must also believe that, no matter the day-to-day disappointments of political opportunism or corruption or the cavalcade of anesthetizing lies that make up the bulk of most every election campaign, there is something solid holding the whole endeavor together, something greater. For members of every generation, there comes a moment of complete and completely emptying disgust when it is revealed there is only a hollow. A completely malleable thing whose primary use is not the opposition of evil or administration of justice but the preservation of existing power. History is a debris field of such moments.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad
“But the word “radicalize” feels wrong, seems to imply an element of extremism, as though rage at this kind of blatant hypocrisy is the abnormal thing, when what is plainly abnormal is to accept it.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad
“It's not surprising, I don't think, that in the midst of this indiscriminate killing, many of the Westerners doing the most active work in opposing genocide are Jews. Here is love born of pain, if the past century's most horrific crime, love of one's own spread outward into love of another. Whatever the empire is, it has no idea what to do with this kind of love, which adheres neither to the empire’s own central principle of self-interest nor to the adjoining principle that solidarity is only with one’s own, that love for one’s people may never become love for another.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad
“It is a disorienting thing, to keep a ledger of atrocity, to write the ugliness of each day as it happens. The months smother the months, soon the years will smother the years. Killing that might have once made front-page news slowly submit to the law of diminish returns- what is left to say but more dead, more dead?”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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