{"id":5893,"date":"2020-04-20T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2020-04-20T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:11:46","slug":"taking-power-from-the-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/20\/taking-power-from-the-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Power from the Powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Large portions of this reading can be attributed to the happenings in our world right now. Honestly, it is a scary place where I think the majority feel powerless because of the paralyzing fear placed in our heads. However, one piece of the reading from Zinn\u2019s essay has a bit of a double meaning right now. He states that we must remember that while those with power seem to be untouchable, we must always remember that they are in fact vulnerable if people begin to defy their authority and withhold any and all obedience. This statement is most likely referring to leaders of governments and societies, who seem to hold all the power and that nothing can hurt them. But the people with power who people deem untouchable have changed during this pandemic. I think these leaders are now the people only aiming to make our country safer and healthier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nurses and doctors who are risking their lives everyday to simply go to work to help those affected by COVID-19 and any other ailments truly hold a lot of power over who can be helped and how we can help them. \u201cGenerals become powerless when their soldiers refuse to fight,\u201d Zinn wrote. Our fight right now is to stay home and stay healthy for the benefits of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">everyone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in our city, state, and country. However, if we do not stay home we simply add on to the increasing numbers of those affected by COVID-19 and begin to overwhelm the doctors and nurses working everyday to save these people. We are taking away their medicine, tools, and hours of rest that right now all add up to the amount of power they have. We have always looked up to medical professionals and view them as saviors who cannot be harmed, but we are only hurting them and increasing their vulnerability by not following their simple requests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large portions of this reading can be attributed to the happenings in our world right now. Honestly, it is a scary place where I think the majority feel powerless because of the paralyzing fear placed in our heads. However, one piece of the reading from Zinn\u2019s essay has a bit of a double meaning right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}