So does it matter what we think if we don't act on it?
I think it does, yes - have you read, by chance, Adam Hochschild's book Bury the Chains? One of my favorite books, period. He talks in there about how slavery is older than writing and money, and as late as 1787 in Britain abolition was a crank idea. Twenty-one years later, the trade was abolished. Thomas Clarkson, one of the main architects of the entire movement, lived to see outright emancipation in 1833. What I am trying to say badly is that this is why I try not to despair and why I don't actually agree with people who say that nothing can change - because things can, and have, and changing people's minds is the bedrock of that. And it is incomplete and it does take work, but what people think is a key part of it.
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Date: 2012-04-11 18:26 (UTC)I think it does, yes - have you read, by chance, Adam Hochschild's book Bury the Chains? One of my favorite books, period. He talks in there about how slavery is older than writing and money, and as late as 1787 in Britain abolition was a crank idea. Twenty-one years later, the trade was abolished. Thomas Clarkson, one of the main architects of the entire movement, lived to see outright emancipation in 1833. What I am trying to say badly is that this is why I try not to despair and why I don't actually agree with people who say that nothing can change - because things can, and have, and changing people's minds is the bedrock of that. And it is incomplete and it does take work, but what people think is a key part of it.