A review by floortje_fauna
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman

4.0

"It's weirdly passive to commit gentrification, even though the consequence is brutal. It feels safe to be like others, and frightening to be one's self - because that requires knowing who one's true self is - and not in a New Agey sense where anything one "feels" (a euphemism for wants) is right. But in a truthful sense, to see one's dark side and conflicts and in that way, realize one's self as human. Not as an excuse to not change, but as a starting point for change."