The politics of bewilderment
 

Howe 114: "The politics of bewilderment belongs only to those who have little or no access to an audience or a government. It involves circling the facts, seeing the problem from varying directions, showing the weakness from the bottom up, the conspiracies, the lies, the plans, the false rhetoric; the politics of bewilderment runs against myth, or fixing, binding, defending. It's a politics devoted to the little and the weak; it is grassroots in that it imitates the way grass bends and springs back when it is stepped on. It won't go away but will continue asking irritating questions to which it knows all the answers."
 
Not sure about that last line, but I like the rest of this

> from Fanny Howe's Night Philosophy (2020)

> tagged with #politics, #activism

> created January 12, 2025 at 1:39:35 PM


> part of unfinished everything


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