Does this remind you of anyone?
Thursday, October 6, 2005
In Orhan Pamuk’s important novel about religious strife in eastern Turkey, Snow, he describes a meeting of revolutionary leaders who “sat down with an easy confidence known only to those for whom it has become second nature to decide other people’s fates.”
Philip Gourevitch expresses a similar thought in a somewhat different way in his book about the Rwandan genocide, in which he writes that having power over another person [or group] means forcing them to inhabit your story of their reality.
