| | |
|
VanWheelFirstPaper 4 - 13 Aug 2012 - Main.EbenMoglen
|
| |
| META TOPICPARENT | name="FirstPaper" |
|---|
A Story About Fear
-- By VanWheel - 16 Feb 2012 | | | When John Brown said that he’d acted because he sympathized with the man in bondage, because he could not complacently be free while others were in chains, I think he acknowledged an instinct we all have, whether we bury it deep or embrace it. For all our questioning of his motives in class, I admire him, because if nothing else, there is a man, as far as I know, who had the courage and insight never to split. I’m guessing that brings a peace of mind few of us will ever truly feel. I, for one, often find myself thinking that everything I’m so concerned about now—the money, the debt, the status—will mean very little to me when I’m old and on death’s door.
A friend said to me recently that she always thought it funny when people started a sentence with, “If I die,” because, honestly, where’s the “if”? We are all going to die one day, there are no “ifs” about it, and the only real question is how we are going to feel about ourselves in the moments before we do.
\ No newline at end of file | |
>
> |
Yes, this is what I had in mind when I suggested a draft from another
self-state. I'm interested, and you possibly may be too, why the
part of you that criticizes splitting and sees courage as integrity
is also concerned with the meaning of life at the moment of death.
The woman in the car is one image of the injustice we mobilize our
courage to confront, but the specific nature of the image in relation
to the idea of death as the moment we give meaning to life would bear
some further thought.
The goal, as I'm sure you understood, is to find a way to stand in
the space between these two states, to see them both as real and
enduring, important, capable parts of you, not needing to be resolved
into a winner and a loser, or a right one and a wrong one, but as
collaborators in the making of your life. A lawyer's life. Not the
life of an office worker with a law license gathering dust on someone
else's shelf.
| | | \ No newline at end of file |
|
|
|
|
This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platform.
All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
All material marked as authored by Eben Moglen is available under the license terms CC-BY-SA version 4.
|
|
| | |