Articles by Max Wilbert

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(Italiano) Praticare la disobbedienza: la giustizia sociale e ambientale dipende dalla nostra capacità di disobbedire
Max Wilbert – Centro Studi Sereno Regis, 12 Dec 2016

E’ difficile resistere alle pressioni sociali, specialmente quando siamo abituati ad abbinarle alle norme. Ma è essenziale imparare a disobbedire. Un rimedio è la pratica. Come sollevare pesi o scrivere un saggio di cinque paragrafi, la resistenza è una capacità che può essere allenata.

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Practicing Disobedience: Social and Environmental Justice Depends on Our Capacity to Disobey
Max Wilbert - CounterPunch, 28 Nov 2016

From birth, we are trained to obey authority. For most of the history, our authority figures were elders and chiefs who would be trusted, wise individuals who put the needs of the community first. Today we live in a different world, a world run by sociopaths. It is hard to resist social pressures, especially when we have become accustomed to going along with norms. But it is essential that we learn how to disobey.

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