This is another sentence that I read in the book "Willfull Blindness".. When I read it I just stopped for a moment, then I read it again. I thought how perfectly worded and how guilty we have all been of this kind of silence. I wrote a blog the other night, I believe it was by Elie Wiesel about this very subject.
It starts when we are so very young, when we actually are powerless. We are taught not to "tell". Sometimes we are told by parents or grownups that we really didn't see what we saw, didn't hear what we heard and don't really feel what we feel. How crazy making is that to a child? I have been in jobs where it felt like it was my job to protect co workers and particularly my boss. And what about relationships where you feel you have to lie for your partner or spouse, when your very livelihood for yourself and your children depends on your silence. Sometimes you believe and possibly rightly so that your life and thiers depends on your silence.
Then, I guess you reach a point where you just don't want the hassle of getting involved on someone elses behalf. When that happens you are really should know that "Silence Is The Language Of Inertia" and eventually everyone pays, and the price is high, way to high.
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011.......11:41p.m.
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