From “We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence” by David Dark
More than one person in my life has helped me feel and access my own moral power and get curious and creative over my conflicts, my own stupefied moments. At our best, we lean into and respond to tension instead of ignoring or repressing it. Ignoring that which makes us uncomfortable, and repressing the fact of it, is a reactive mindset. Over a few habit forming days, weeks, or years, it can add up to the active suppression of conscience. Before we know it, a reactive personality resistant to incoming data has formed. That might sound dramatic, but a moment’s consideration of what we’ve beheld and experienced within the first quarter of the twenty-first century might serve as evidence.