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El Akkad on training:
The second is inward: every small act of resistance trains the muscle used to do it, in much the same way that turning ones eyes from the horror strengthens that particular muscle, readies it to ignore even greater horror to come. One builds the muscle by walking away from the most minor things-trivial consumables, the cultural work of monsters, the myriad material fruits grown on stolen ground-and realizes in the doing of these things that there is a wide spectrum of negative resistance. Maybe it's not all that much trouble to avoid ordering coffee and downloading apps and buying chocolate-flavored hummus from companies that abide slaughter.