Tatiana translates: (and beautifully, i think)
>"We don't have the power to hear
> Our words echoing in other minds and souls, --
but don't we have to act as if we did?
how compatible is this perception (one i share, by the way)
with a belief in socially constructed knowledge? or activity theory?
if i don't speak up, contradict, disillusion someone
when they tell me what "we" are doing, or why, or what the "truth" is,
it seems that i am supporting not only the statement that i might disagree
with,
but the speaker's belief that others share this perception of truth.
so, i come back to silence
as a response
as a kind of complicity (but, oh! there are dangerous echoes there!)
what i am hoping for is some alternate route
than through the narrow, churning waters between the rock and the hard
place . . .
kathie
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.........Our words misunderstand us..............................
.....We are our words, and black and bruised and blue.
Under our skins, we're laughing....................................
.........................Adrienne Rich..................................
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