Stephane Hessel’s “Indignez vous!”, has already become an editorial phenomenon in France selling more than 600,000 copies in the first three months. He is disgusted by complacency and is calling for people to "Cry Out" and get outraged again!
Hessel argues that French people (and I'd argue all people) should re-embrace the values of the French resistance, which have been lost, driven by indignation and the French people need to get outraged again.
"Indifference, the worst attitude" was the chapter that resonated the most with me. As we live in a complex world where "Who controls, and who decides" is not always clear. We live with inter connectivity and interdependence and there are still somethings that are unbearable. The worst attitude is INDIFFERENCE, saying "I cannot do anything, I'm doing my job." We already see this playing out with the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor. The lack of universal rights for all people. What are we doing? How are we crying out? Are we making a difference? Or being complacent?
To quote his last sentence and within that coupled with my own desire, we say "CREATE is to resist. RESIST IS TO CREATE."
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