Tread lightly on the things of earth

I’m pondering Gandhi’s call to satyagraha, which he calls “an intensely active state—more active than physical resistance or violence.”

Jonathan Schell says Gandhi’s term satyagraha combines the Sanskrit word sat (“that which is,” or “being,” or “truth”) with graha (“holding firm” or “remaining steadfast in”) and is usually translated as “truth force” or “soul force.” Schell describes satyagraha as “direct action without violence in support of the actor’s beliefs—the ‘truth’ in the person.”

In a comment to Rumsfeld backtracks on WMD claims, jonME reminds me why political activism is so important now in facing down this domination system:

Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction too.