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What does political resistance mean today?
John. Berger offers deep and radical reflections with a heartfelt passion.

* "I write in this dark night, but what I see is not just violence. If it were only violence, I would not have the courage to continue writing. I see people sleeping, busy, getting up to drink water, whispering their plans or fears, Making love, praying, cooking to the sound of family snores, in Baghdad, in Chicago. (Yes, I also saw the indomitable Kurds, four thousand of whom, with the tacit consent of the United States, fought under the Hassan regime Gas chamber gas chamber poisoning.) I saw a pastry chef working in Tehran; a Sardinian shepherd thought to be a bandit took a nap next to his sheep; I saw a man in Berlin's Friedrichshafen district wearing pajamas, Holding a beer and reading Heidegger, who has proletarian hands; I see a small boat of illegal immigrants docked off the coast of Aligante, Spain; I see a mother in Marley rocking her baby to sleep , her name was Aya, which means "born on Friday"; I saw the ruins of Kabul and a man on his way home; and I knew that, despite the pain, the survivors' cleverness and agility in finding and gathering energy had not dimmed. There is some spiritual value in this, something similar to the Holy Spirit. Although the world is as dark as night, I firmly believe it, even though I can't explain why. "——"Where are we? 〉

"John Berger wrote about things that mattered, not just interesting things. For me, Berger has an unparalleled place in contemporary English writing circles. No other writer since DH Lawrence has been as interested in Such attention is paid to the world of the senses, and such sympathy is given to the moral conscience.”—Susan. Sontag