The World According to Edward Said

Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be.

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We are most profoundly intimidated (whether that takes the form of fear, hostility, envy or skepticism) by the people we aren’t and the things/qualities we don’t possess. It’s the big bad other that knots up our stomachs, raises our hackles (and the hair on the back of our necks) and keeps us tossing and turning at night.

Ponder on that, kiddos. Your homework is a 300 -500 word essay on the applicability of this knowledge to your own life. Papers due on my desk during homeroom on Wednesday morning.

Class dismissed!

*Credit to NS for making a comparison that set off the train of thought that, seven or eight degrees later, led to this post.