{"id":3936,"date":"2023-08-29T22:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T02:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/d-h-lawrence-on-the-hypocrisies-of-social-change-and-what-it-actually-takes-to-shift-the-status-quo-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T02:36:42","slug":"d-h-lawrence-on-the-hypocrisies-of-social-change-and-what-it-actually-takes-to-shift-the-status-quo-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/d-h-lawrence-on-the-hypocrisies-of-social-change-and-what-it-actually-takes-to-shift-the-status-quo-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"D.H. Lawrence on the Hypocrisies of Social Change and What It Actually Takes to Shift the Status Quo \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cProgress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive,\u201d Zadie Smith wrote in her superb meditation on optimism and despair<\/a>. But the paradox of progress is that because there is no universal utopia \u2014 every utopia is built on someone\u2019s back \u2014 there can be no universal progress, no absolute measure of it. Its relativism conceals a euphemism for moving the world in the direction of the one\u2019s own desires, relativism laced with myriad hypocrisies that keep us from building the kind of world Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez envisioned in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech<\/a> \u2014 a world \u201cwhere no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those hypocrisies, and how to transcend them, are what D.H. Lawrence<\/strong> (September 11, 1885\u2013March 2, 1930) addresses with his characteristic passionate conviction in a letter to one of his literary friends, Lady Cynthia Asquith, found in The Letters of D.H. Lawrence<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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