Everything Is Tuberculosis

To inspire is to breathe in; to expire is to breathe all the way out.

People who are treated as less than fully human by the social order are more susceptible to tuberculosis. But it’s not because of their moral codes or choices or genetics; it’s because they are treated as less than fully human by the social order.

“Pain is in the body. It leaves no trace for the historian, unless complaints about it are recorded.”

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”

In fact, between 1985 and 2005, roughly as many people died of tuberculosis as in World Wars I and II combined.

History is often imagined as a series of events, unfolding one after the other like a sequence of falling dominoes. But most human experiences are processes, not events.