Can we inspect the very lens through which we see the world?
How can reflecting on the concept of privilege help us here?
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Russia, China, and Our Endless Cold (And Hot) Wars
It is not an exaggeration that the West, in particular the United States, is escalating a new Cold War, or hybrid war, with China. In fact, it is quite the opposite: to not acknowledge or warn against it would be taking a completely ahistorical position.
Privilege: What Makes Us Change? Part 1
What makes us change? What changes the way we perceive the world and our place in it? And although privilege is not the only lens through which we see the world, I think it contains an important part of the answer to these questions. Let’s dive in!
Impunity: What Happens When The Powerful Investigate Their Own Crimes
It always seems a bit dystopian: the military investigating its own actions. To be more precise, what seems dystopian – or simply completely corrupt – is that same military concluding that “everything’s OK.”
Unfortunately, dystopia is what we find in what we like to call liberal democracies.
Privilege: Introduction
Talking about privilege can be uncomfortable, it can easily make us defensive, and it does have the power to prevent us from taking significant action. That’s why, we have to talk about it!
Belarus, Chile, and the Never Agains
This episode is on the concept of Never Again and how we’ve…failed at it. How to analyse conflicts in the first place? What tools do we have?
It’s also on the small actions that can prevent other actions – even if it’s one person who decides not to go to a protest I describe in this episode. I think this is definitely where we can start.
Always Wanted Your Bravery Tested? Here’s The Ultimate Test
An authoritarian regime is being dismantled in Belarus: what is this process and how come it is turning people into heroes without their permission?
What Does The Exploding Head Even Mean?
Do you ever feel like your head is about to explode? What are the issues that have that effect on you? I claim that intellectually “getting” a certain situation doesn’t make you immune to feeling a certain way about it. In the end, I think this is what makes us human: it is very much allowed.
AllShameMatters: on Cracks, Leaps, and Other Types of Movement(s)
Whatever your personal journey of trying to understand someone else’s (collective) reality is, step into it with curiosity, openness to listen, and kindness. Fight the shame, fight the defensiveness. Your defensiveness is not at the centre here: that collective reality is.
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