Andrew McCluskey

It's about humanization. And I can't think of another way to imagine how we're going to get out of the crisis of racial hatred if not through the will to humanize." 7

When we are in fear mode, our capacity to understand the perspectives of those different from us shuts down. Fear primes us for self-interest.

if we could just put a big fucking neon sign up that says: "I'm not interacting right now so don't infer anything from my existence" - how fucking cool would that be?

By the way, this book could perhaps be described as the result of my own personal quest. For many years now, I have built my research and writing on a very simple statement of purpose—which I repeat, almost as a mantra, on every possible occasion, in print or public lectures: Music is a source of enchantment and a catalyst in human life , and my... See more