Estados Unidos
Using contributions from James B. White, Thucydides, and Harold Pinter, this essay examines the interplay between language, political action, self-respect, and both public and private morality. It confronts the dilemma that even in the face of horrific injustice – some committed on a monstrous scale – the idealism expressed through language in principled political protest, however heartfelt or eloquent, has little or no practical effect. Asking what then we are to do with our fine words, it argues that the preservation of a vocabulary that expresses such idealism is necessary to maintain both self-integrity and a set of communal ideals essential to recreating a better world if circumstances ever change to permit it.
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