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🤍 John Berger on Tenderness
A luminous, slow-burning conversation between John Berger and Michael Silverblatt, ranging from WWI trenches to mountain peasants, marionettes to motorcycles. At its centre is tenderness — considered less as a sentiment than as an act of freedom, a refusal to judge, a way of staying human
A luminous, slow-burning conversation between John Berger and Michael Silverblatt, ranging from WWI trenches to mountain peasants, marionettes to motorcycles. At its centre is tenderness — considered less as a sentiment than as an act of freedom, a refusal to judge, a way of staying human in the face of pain. 'The real freedom… is the free choice, in some way, by gesture, or glance, or action, of tenderness.'
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