Day 18:Manifesto

In this piece, George Saunders is saying that his organization, People Reluctant to Kill for an Abstraction, is one that does not involve showing force by violence or terror, but by consideration and love. This is important because he lists the acts of violence and humiliation that are usually performed on victims and writes that none of this actually happened. No one was killed, injured, humiliated, or held any grudges. The organization that Saunders speaks of, is people of a whole and are willing to support each other in times of needs. Their voices will be louder than the cries of terror and will stand up to opponents of the organization. Saunders’s intention for writing this could’ve been to unite everyone as a whole because he lists some people from all over the place and their situations and their hope for a better world. He doesn’t point out a specific group or ethnicity that makes up this organization, but “we”. Saunders want us to relate to each other of our distresses and fears of the world and together, we can endure, and prevail.