Mary Grafilo
ASA 2 Section 2
Week 1

Response to Thinking Dialectically

Boggs defines the "thinking dialectically" as "recognizing that what built the movement in the past is unlikely to build it in the present or future". I feel like this statement can be valid. I also think that media greatly supports this idea. If someone has an idea for a movement, you can bet that there is a news or media that will attempt to crush it by relating it to past movement efforts.

Later questions further intrigued me. There is a question: "How do we confront the painful reality that our freedoms and comforts is the global north have come at great and immeasurable injury to many peoples and to the Earth?"
Although Professor is trying to push us to be more rebellious and direct, I can honestly say it is difficult to accept realities that the luxuries we have are created by the pain, sweat, tears and more of others.
Many of the questions I could not answer. To be frank, I do not see myself as an important part of society. I can understand how one could preach to me about how it adds up, but unless I see detrimental effect directly, I do not change my actions. I do not yet relate very well to any of the readings.
Out of Curiosity:
In the reading she quotes Martin Luther King Jr., I would like to know if Boggs thinks of herself more as a disciple or like an MLK of our time in terms of spread equality.



 Homer hears both the angel and the devil on his shoulders. At certain points in the reading, I kept deciding what side the author was on in terms of my shoulders. I often find myself like Homer, confused on whose word to believe, not necessarily that one is more holy than the other, but just in terms of which perspective I agree with.