Parrhesia – now more important than ever

Parrhesia – now more important than ever

By Kayla Henry*

In rhetoric, parrhesia is candid speech, speaking freely. It implies not only freedom of speech, but the obligation to speak the truth for the common good, even at personal risk.

“your feelings have no relevance in the crusade for truth”
“it was never gonna be just a few days”
It’s been like this forever.
This isn’t a change of weather.
Freedoms hanging by a thread here
while we binge Netflix and TikTok…
Now, I’m not here to judge you.
I know we’re all scared and tired
and we’ve been so hardwired.
Media fueled the wrong fires.
We’re depressed, we’re dying
while billionaires are crying
with laughter—

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