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  1. James W. Loewen _ Lies My Teacher Told Me:

    The textbooks also fail to show how the continuous Indian wars have reverberated through our culture. Carleton Beals has written that "our acquiescence in Indian dispossession has molded the American character." As soon as Natives were no longer conflict partners, their image deteriorated in the minds of many whites. Kupperman has shown how this process unfolded in Virginia after the Indian defeat in the 1640s: "It was the ultimate powerlessness of the Indians, not their racial inferiority, which made it possible to see them as people without rights." Natives who had been "ingenious," "industrious," and "quick of apprehension" in 1610 now became "sloathfull and idle, vitious, melancholy, {and} slovenly." This is another example of the process of cognitive dissonance.
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  2. Ruth Ozeki _ My Year of Meats

    I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
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  3. Haruki Murakami _ 1Q84 #1-2

    You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
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  4. Alison Weir _ The Lady Elizabeth

    But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?
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