Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power.
Michel Foucault
"To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places...To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away and never, never, to forget." ~ Arundhati Roy
That phrase— “You are giving us too much power” —is slippery, and your instinct that it functions as a kind of straw man or deflection is ...
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