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WHAT IS ENOUGH?

• “I think….lots of us, kind of don’t know where

to….where it’s ok to draw the line between what you need, what you want for your own well-being and what your duty is as a citizen of the world to do, given that we’re in this huge position of privilege”

Commensurability

• “Putting your whole body in the way of what’s

happening feels quite cathartic, you’re actually doing something because you’re whole body’s involved”

“Governments have to traverse the Scylla and Charybdis of complacency (not seeing something that is actually present, turning a blind eye, a perverse refusal to see what’s in front of them) and paranoia (reading ‘too much’ into what is present). Arguably, Britain under Blair has exhibited complacency in the face of environmental threat but has veered too much in the direction of paranoia in the face of security threats” (2005, BJPIR)

DOUBLING

• “Almost all witnesses state that they live a

double existence. There is a Balkanisation of memory, where Holocaust memories and normal memories are assigned to two, sometimes hostile territories….Consider a few phrases witnesses use: ‘a double existence’, ‘another world’, ‘two worlds’, ‘two different planets’.” Kraft, R. (2002) Memory Perceived: Recalling the Holocaust.

Sam Beckett, Worstward Ho!

• “Ever tried. Ever failed. Try
• again. Fail again. Fail

Better.”