Our personal experiences and insight dictate the path we choose to take. The scholar’s power is ‘In the pen’ and in their ability to teach others, especially the next generation. In this digital age we have the ability to transmit ideas and information to an ever increasing audience. This atmosphere of blatant lies and suppression of truth, I feel, led the academic’s to
chose the path they felt would allow them the freedom to continue their work.
Your thoughts mirror mine. People like Timothy Snyder are in real danger, and can most effectively resist from outside the country, where they are free to write about the malevolent Trump regime without becoming a victim of it. Sometimes resistance from within an authoritarian country is effective, but other times it just makes you a member of The White Rose.
Our personal experiences and insight dictate the path we choose to take. The scholar’s power is ‘In the pen’ and in their ability to teach others, especially the next generation. In this digital age we have the ability to transmit ideas and information to an ever increasing audience. This atmosphere of blatant lies and suppression of truth, I feel, led the academic’s to
chose the path they felt would allow them the freedom to continue their work.
Your thoughts mirror mine. People like Timothy Snyder are in real danger, and can most effectively resist from outside the country, where they are free to write about the malevolent Trump regime without becoming a victim of it. Sometimes resistance from within an authoritarian country is effective, but other times it just makes you a member of The White Rose.