3 essays where George Orwell sits on the council. George weighs in on conscience, complicity, courage. Read what George would tell you.
Orwell says name it plainly. Arendt says thoughtlessness is how ordinary people participate in terrible things. Havel says you are already living the lie or refusing it.
Three thinkers on when to speak. Orwell says silence is complicity. Epictetus says speak and release the outcome. Baldwin says your silence has a price you haven't named.
Three thinkers on when to speak out. Orwell says name what you see. Douglass says silence has always served the powerful. Weil says look first, then speak.
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