Foolish silence: Reflecting on the ecology of silent collaboration with injustice

ABSTRACT The prevalence of injustice in society should be understood as the outcome of both individual and household level forces as well as those that take place at various levels of societal interaction. Connecting personal, local, and global factors is important to advancing the kind of poly-centric approach that will bring about institutional, interpersonal, and intra-personal change. This essay reflects on the forces at work in one particular time and place, and how they shaped the author’s interpretation of society and how it develops.