doe on Nostr: i ask because i want to expand my repertoire of works that i can reference for ...

i ask because i want to expand my repertoire of works that i can reference for conceptions of violence (and its supposed opposite non-violence).

i'll be having a discussion with a few others on a stream in a few days, and we'll be discussing violence.

in general i think the average person's conception of violence papers over much of the daily violence that upholds our lives. i think the average person's conception of "nonviolence" is a kind of Martyr fetish that sees the role of the oppressed as one to be beaten until the oppressor's heart is moved by the display of nonviolence.