As I wrote here, I will meet Nori this weekend in Kumamoto. So check this blog even if you are done with the quarter!
June 5, 2007
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I never posted on Nori’s visit…but I like reflecting on it now. Especially after our last discussion in class with so many different life paths: combine work and activism, full-time activism, giving up, apathy, progressives, and conservatives. I think Nori was the “life-long activist,” at least until all the bad reactions once he came back to Japan. So it’s not just an individual choice, but the climate matters. I think that’s what I’m forgetting when I lament over the impossiblity of “recruiting” people to become activists. That the enviroment matters, and it takes years to return to your passion after such intense rejection. Imagine the slow pressures from supposedly “apathetic” people who seem to have a soundtrack of “you can’t do anything you can’t do anything you can’t do anything.” So maybe you can influence which people get infused with spark of activism by fixing the enviroment they’re in and refusing to value apathy.
Comment by laurenkocher — June 5, 2007 @ 6:50 pm |
I was just telling a former student that generation is history–and that’s to say, environment (“climate”–look how these metaphors overlap), too. For someone in college at the tale end of civil rights (didn’t know it was the tale end then), seeming to blur into the antiwar movement, history looked like it was progress. My former student said she grew up in the Reagan-Bush years and therefore is more hopeful now.
Comment by normajeanne — June 11, 2007 @ 3:33 pm |