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by Laurie S. Sherman (Author)
KNOT. is not a book about solutions.
It is a book about why solutions keep failing.
Focusing on inherited conflicts
-especially Israel/Palestine-
Laurie S. Sherman examines the moral and psychological
pressures fields that collapse complexity into certainty,
spectacle and erasure. Drawing from trauma psychology,
tahrir, ahimsa, yin-yang dynamics, and nervous
system science, she names the patterns
that turn grief into grievance
and care into annihilation.
This is not neutrality.
It is not balance-as-performance.
KNOT. argues for holding: the disciplined capacity to remain
ethical, present, and human inside conflicts with no clean
exit-when clarity seduces, pressure escalates,
and disappearance is demanded.
Hope, here, is not optimism.
It is capacity
