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Conscience and Resistance
At 20 Scott Russell Sanders was faced with whether to join the Vietnam
conflict or find "a refuge from the pressures of a society obsessed with
buying stuff, having fun, and waging war." Influenced by Thomas
Merton's essay, "Rain and the Rhinoceros" to make a critical choice
which you can read about here, he goes on to explain in this beautiful
essay how he has found a life for himself beyond violence, even as he
recognizes that "we are in the world and part of it, and we are
destroying everything because we are destroying ourselves spiritually,
morally, and in every way."
