We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence (audio)

by David Dark

Publisher:

christianaudio.com

, 2023

Overview

From one of the most respected thinkers and public intellectuals of our day comes a book that is both a cultural critique of the state of our country and a robust summons to resist complicity. From one of the most respected thinkers and public intellectuals of our day comes a book that is both a cultural critique of the state of our country and a robust summons to resist complicity. As we move through the world, we constantly weigh our conscience against what David Dark calls “deferential fear”-going along just to get along, especially in relation to our cultural, political, and religious conversations. Dark reveals our compromised reality: the host of hidden structures and tacit social arrangements that draw us away from ourselves and threaten to turn us slowly into what we decry in others. We Become What We Normalize counsels a creative, slow, and artful response to the economy of reaction, hurry, shaming, and fearmongering. Dark offers a deep analysis of the ways our conceptions of ourselves and our use of technology often lead us away from what we believe, reinforcing the false narrative that we must humiliate others in order to survive. “I suspect we become what we sit still for, what we play along with, and what we abide in our attempts to access more perceived power and more alleged influence,” Dark writes. We Become What We Normalize calls for a new kind of struggle, ethic, witness, and spirit that helps us step away from the infinite loop of normalizing harm into effecting true change for ourselves and the worlds we inhabit.

Product Details

• Title: We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence (audio)
• Author: David Dark
• Publisher: christianaudio.com
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Audio
• Subjects: Social Science › Sociology of Religion; Social Science › Sociology of Sports see SPORTS & RECREATION--Sociology of Sports; Religion › Christian Living--Social Issues; Belmont University; progressive Christian; religion
• ISBNs: 9781545924518, 1545924511
• Resource ID: LLS:9781545924518
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-11-30T19:36:19Z

About David Dark

David Dark (PhD, Vanderbilt University) teaches in the College of Theology at Belmont University and among the incarcerated communities of Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, Everyday Apocalypse and The Gospel According to America. He also contributed to the book Radiohead and Philosophy and has published articles in Pitchfork, Paste, Oxford American, Books and Culture and Christian Century. A frequent speaker, David has appeared on C-SPAN's Book-TV and in the award-winning documentary Marketing the Message. He lives with his singer-songwriter wife, Sarah Masen, and their three children in Nashville.