You can look at violence as an observer or outsider – ‘you’ different from the thing you look at. When you look that way, you are assuming one fragment to be more important than the other fragments. When you look with one fragment at the other fragments, one fragment has assumed authority, and therefore that fragment becomes contradictory. That causes contradiction and therefore conflict. But if you can look without the fragment at all, without any particular fragment, then you look at the whole without the observer. From Public Talk 1, Santa Monica, California, 1 March 1970 Read more |