Extra notes about Chapter 28 – Social Implications – in the book,
The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent.
Other notes are found here.

Quotes

What keeps you going? Are you not fed by your work?
– Joanna Macy

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.
– Rev angel Kyodo williams

There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
– Arundhati Roy

What will save us is not technology or science. What will save us is the ethical transformation of our society.
– Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel, a climate scientist who teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires

Sometimes we are responsible for something not because we are to blame, but because we are the only ones who can change it.
– Lisa Feldman Barnett – TED talk

When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalists is to confront those who are abusing power.
– Jorge Ramos, journalist

I want a revolution that changes the very nature of how power is structured and perceived, that challenges all systems of domination and control, that nurtures the empowerment of individuals and the collective power we can wield when we act together in solidarity.
– Starhawk

In somatic sex education we bring healing to the most intimate and personal traumas. We also see how systems of oppression, institutions, social norms and dominant culture paradigms do terrible violence at every level, harming souls and societies. Social change and personal healing are intricately linked. Unprocessed trauma robs us of capacity and stamina; it keeps us from forming the resourced relationships and caring communities we need to sustain social justice movements and make radical changes in the dominant culture. We need to co-create space to heal in, where our personal healing supports and is supported by social justice work. Trauma healing requires a strong social justice analysis and commitment. Effective, sustainable social justice work can be deeply resourced by somatic practices. I will be talking about this in our Community of Practice call tomorrow, and guiding some somatic inquiry.
– Caffyn Jesse, in a Facebook post

The Shadow of the Taking Quadrant

The shadow of the Taking Quadrant may be the biggest factor in our history. At least it’s a very large one. There’s too much to list here, but here are a few resources that at least give you more of an idea about the U.S.’s complicity.

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States, and several offshoots of that book.

An interview with Bill McKibben, which starts off with explaining that Exxon knew about the contribution of fossil fuels to climate change in the 1980’s, withheld that information and then built a campaign to discredit it.

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon white house after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and the black with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their meetings, and vilify them might after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
– John Erlichman, Nixon advisor (Quoted in 13th)

Civilization is, by its very nature, a long-running Ponzi scheme. It lives by robbing nature and borrowing from the future, exploiting its hinterland until there is nothing left to exploit, after which it implodes. While it still lives, it generates a temporary and fictitious surplus that it uses to enrich and empower the few and to dispossess and dominate the many….Industrial civilization is the apotheosis and quintessence of this fatal course. A fortunate minority gains luxuries and freedoms galore, but only by slaughtering, poisoning, and exhausting creation.
– William Ophuls in Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences

The Shadow of Serve-Accept

Slavery still happens: https://www.freetheslaves.net/our-model-for-freedom/slavery-today/