We Become What We Normalize Audiobook Libro.fm

From one of the most respected thinkers and public intellectuals of our day comes a book that is both a cultural critique of the state of our country and a robust summons to resist complicity As we move through the world we constantly weigh our conscience against what David Dark calls deferential feargoing along just to get along especially in relation to our cultural political and religious conversations Dark reveals our compromised reality the host of hidden structures and tacit social arrangements that draw us away from ourselves and threaten to turn us slowly into what we decry in others

We Become What We Normalize counsels a creative slow and artful response to the economy of reaction hurry shaming and fearmongering Dark offers a deep analysis of the ways our conceptions of ourselves and our use of technology often lead us away from what we believe reinforcing the false narrative that we must humiliate others in order to survive I suspect we become what we sit still for what we play along with and what we abide in our attempts to access more perceived power and more alleged influence Dark writes We Become What We Normalize calls for a new kind of struggle ethic witness and spirit that helps us step away from the infinite loop of normalizing harm into effecting true change for ourselves and the worlds we inhabit