written by Goh Byeong Gwon

This book is a collection of his writings and solidarity speeches from 2018 to 2023. It's all about people. More precisely, it is about people who are not treated as people, people with disabilities, migrants, sick people, and non-human animals. It is about severely disabled people locked up in institutions, illegal immigrants hunted down, parents who kill their children and pray for suicide, and sick bodies that make them feel sorry for themselves and make excuses. In this wicked society, the author, Go Byung Kwon keeps asking, “Am I stupid?”, hinting that something must be wrong. It is a story about those who have been excluded or pushed to the margins by oppression, discrimination, prejudice, and ignorance, but it is also a story about recognizing and asking.

The world that is captured and sucked into his dense sentences is not the world we knew before. It is a world where 'metaphors and symbols' have disappeared, as if ‘like’ disappeared in "like dying". Here, the reader is invited to revisit the vague notions of "minorities" and "marginalized groups" that we have assumed to know and how we treat them. Above all, while facing Go Byung Kwon's silent anger and despair, penitence and shame, and admiration and support for the fighters, the reader naturally puts himself or herself in their place. Before the mind can comprehend, the heart is struck by emotions that precede logic. This is the power of this book, which is both philosophy and the most beautiful literature ever written.