Bec Lee
@bec_nicole
Bec Lee
@bec_nicole
Drawing someone, capturing not so much their likeness but their spirit, is the stuff of infatuation; it took on a different energy with someone I’d known, and adored, for almost twenty years.
There must always be the confidence that the effect of truthfulness can be realized in the mind of the oppressor as well as the oppressed. There is no substitute for such a faith.
Truth is a concept of the human intellect that arises after infancy. There are three culturally sanctioned concepts of truth: perceptual, explanatory (which includes memories) and predictive. They are meant to correspond to present, past and future external states of affairs, respectively.
An adjective to describe the hero > An adjective to describe the bad guy, and… > A compelling goal we identify with as human beings
This use of narrative to simplify the complex is also true of memory. Human memory is ‘episodic’ (we tend to experience our messy pasts as a highly simplified sequences of causes and effects) and ‘autobiographical’ (those connected episodes are imbued with personal and moral meaning).