Lecture 4 - Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship

"Several million years ago, in the Great Rift Valley, one of our earliest ancestors sat by a fire, shapinghumanity's first tool, a hand axe. These exquisite objects are the first utterance of a new emergent consciousness: dig, cut, scrape, chop, pierce, hammer; actions that speak of social organization, extended families living and working together to secure their survival. I am what I am because of what others have been in the past, and what I am now in the present will be a part of me in the future. This sense ofconnectedness,this symbiosis of all humanity, is the very essence of what we can be for each other and how we belong to each other."

AdrienneClarkson