A Note About Quis
Dear Friends,
I’ve been thinking about why I’m so interested in Security – the central focus of Bettmann Dances’ new project.
One of the roots of my interest is certainly my personal history. My father’s parents met as refugees in New York during World War II, and as a Jew I was raised with a healthy sense that the US – my country – should never have to rely on any other country for security. I was raised within a cultural sensibility of “Never Again!”; Never again will we be at the whim of an outside aggressor. Recently our efforts to be safe (Iraq, Afghanistan) have been making a whole lot of people less safe. How do we balance that? We empower our leaders to make us safe, but who keeps us safe from them? Who keeps the ‘other’ safe from us?