Share this post'A new idea of power, one that does not reward those qualities'melissamesku.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther'A new idea of power, one that does not reward those qualities'May 29, 2002Melissa MeskuJan 04, 20241Share this post'A new idea of power, one that does not reward those qualities'melissamesku.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShare“However, the baby was remarkably vocal in his rationale for living. Eventually we ‘offed’ the rich and the attractive that had nothing else to offer…”“At the end of the game, when we killed 10 and reported to the entire group we were finished, we were soon horrified… If we’d all sat and talked first of a goal we could agree on, we may have perhaps come to something better than killing off those unable to verbally defend their life in the face of an angry mob.”“I look at things in principles, not specifics. It’s not so much that some species X does not exist any longer. It’s that we have permitted that to happen, and what’s more, we do not prevent it from happening again. …Somewhere in me I have… the belief that it doesn’t have to be this way. That we are all capable of breaking this…”Melissa Mesku's handwritten notebooks is where I slowly sift through decades of old journals and where you get to remember what pen and paper look like.SubscribePreviousNext