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But there isn't a core. There isn't a kernel. When you peel back the last layer of the onion, there's nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing. And that's who we really are. If you can stop making that mean something, it's an opportunity for enormous freedom. <un-aside> |
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To talk about the apartheid era South African regime as repressive may indeed be true for the many people who were displaced, whose lives were interrupted in one way or another by apartheid. But the trouble with adding a label (even though we may consider it to be true) to "what happened", the trap in talking about the apartheid era South African regime as repressive is that it locks it in place that way in our listening. In order to be free of the past, in order to move on, try on considering "what happened" as simply what's so without adding meaning and significance to it, without glorifying it, without embellishing it. Re-speaking with rigor, rather than saying "the apartheid era South African regime was repressive", say "the apartheid era South African regime was the apartheid era South African regime". <un-aside> |
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