History is full of people who just didn\u2019t. They said no thank you, tur\u00adned away, ran away to the desert, stood on the streets in rags, lived in bar\u00adrels, bur\u00adned down their own houses, wal\u00adked bare\u00adfoot through town, killed their rapists, pushed away din\u00adner, medi\u00adta\u00adted into the light. Even babies refuse, and the elder\u00adly, too. All types of ani\u00admals refuse : at the zoo they gaze dead-eyed through plexi\u00adglass, fling feces at the human faces, stop having babies. Classes refuse. The poor throw their lives onto bar\u00adri\u00adcades. Workers slow the line. Enslaved people have always refu\u00adsed, poi\u00adso\u00adning the feasts, abor\u00adting the embryos. And the dili\u00adgent, flam\u00adboyant jay\u00adwal\u00adkers assert them\u00adselves against traf\u00adfic as the first and fore\u00admost visible, dai\u00adly les\u00adson in just not.<\/p>\n
Saying nothing is a pre\u00adli\u00admi\u00adna\u00adry method of no. To prac\u00adtice uns\u00adpea\u00adking is to prac\u00adtice to being unben\u00adding : more so in a crowd. Cicero wrote \u201ccum tacent, clament\u201d\u2014\u201cin silence they clamor\u201d\u2014and he was right : only a loud\u00admouth would mis\u00adtake silence for agree\u00adment. Silence is as often conspi\u00adra\u00adcy as it is consent. A room of other\u00adwise live\u00adly people saying nothing, sta\u00adring at a figure of autho\u00adri\u00adty, is silence as the inchoate of a now-ini\u00adtia\u00adted we won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Sometimes our refu\u00adsal is in our staying put. We per\u00adfect the loi\u00adter before we per\u00adfect the hustle. Like eve\u00adry other todd\u00adler, each of us once let all adult com\u00admo\u00adtion move around our small bodies as we ins\u00adpec\u00adted clo\u00adver or floor tile. As teens we loi\u00adte\u00adred, too, requi\u00adred \u201csecu\u00adri\u00adty\u201d to dis\u00adlodge us, like how once in a coun\u00adtry full of free\u00adly roa\u00adming dogs, I saw the pri\u00adma\u00adry occu\u00adpa\u00adtion of the police was to try to keep the dogs out of the public foun\u00adtains, and as the cops had moved the dogs from the foun\u00adtains, a new group of dogs had moved in. This was just like being a tee\u00adna\u00adger at the mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
History is full of people who just didn\u2019t. They said no thank you, tur\u00adned away, ran away to the desert, stood on the streets in rags, lived in bar\u00adrels, bur\u00adned down their own houses, wal\u00adked bare\u00adfoot through town, killed their rapists, pushed away din\u00adner, medi\u00adta\u00adted into the light. Even babies refuse, and the elder\u00adly, too. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2456,2458,109,2190,2455,2414,2408,2497,932,34,2463,2496,2494,2495],"class_list":["post-12029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-american","tag-anglais","tag-apophatique","tag-contradiction","tag-english","tag-negatif","tag-negation","tag-non","tag-opposition","tag-poesie","tag-poetry","tag-recusation","tag-refus","tag-rejet","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}