Have to Work at It

We lived as usual. Everyone does most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. We lived as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. 

Margaret Atwood in “The Handmaid’s Tale”

I think this is how bad deeds and situations are allowed to continue because of the deep rooted instinct of survival. Surviving means accepting your situation and figuring out a way to navigate through your new circumstances. Therefore, when people concentrate more on surviving, they are not focused on whether their situation is ethical.

This quote is for September 04, 2017.