Jeska Dzwigalski

“Many years later, my friend Cecilie Surasky, then one of the leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace, observed of these kinds of educational methods: “It’s re-traumatization, not remembering. There is a difference.” When she said it, I knew it was true. Remembering puts the shattered pieces of our selves back together again (re-member-ing); it is a quest for wholeness. At its best, it allows us to be changed and transmuted by grief and loss. But re-traumatization is about freezing us in a shattered state; it’s a regime of ritualistic reenactments designed to keep the losses as fresh and painful as possible. Our education did not ask us to probe the parts of ourselves that might be capable of inflicting great harm on others, and to figure out how to resist them. It asked us to be as outraged and indignant at what happened to our ancestors as if it had happened to us—and to stay in that state.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

“Life is just too damn short to let someone else’s opinion steer the wheel,”
― Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

“And so the question remains: What aren’t we building when we are building our brands?”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

“When she focused in on tech and surveillance, she began tapping into deep and latent cultural fears about the many ways that previously private parts of our lives have become profit centers for all-seeing Silicon Valley giants.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World