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The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. we feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

-C. Wright Mills

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The More We Understand What Is Happening

C. Wright Mills

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. we feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

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As i looked more carefully at the listening matrix i saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. i saw i was subconsciously making a false assumption: the more deeply i understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more i assumed men had the power women did not have. in fact, what i was understanding was the female experience of male power.

Why did i become a canadian citizen? not because i was rejecting being a u.s. citizen. at the time when i became a canadian citizen, you couldn't be a dual citizen. now you can. so i had to be one or the other. but the reason i became a canadian citizen was because it simply seemed so abnormal to me not to be able to vote.

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Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men's powerlessness. too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us - which is really just love for ourselves.

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What is illusion? m.: to whom is the illusion? find it out. then illusion will vanish. generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. it is foolish. illusion is outside and unknown. but the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.

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