When America's public narrative fractures, can we still find our truth in books? (via latimesopinion)
I’m pointing the finger here, yes I am, at the anti-vaxxers, at the homophobes and anti-trans haters, the election deniers, the traitors who stormed the Capitol.I, for one, can’t imagine finding common ground with replacement theory supremacists or advocates of the Big Lie, spread by the former president and his followers, that the 2020 election was stolen.
The same was true in Didion’s era also, when many of the prevailing public narratives were authoritarian and divisive. I think of the quotas faced by Jewish students, among others, at American universities, which extended into the 1960s; the redlining and housing covenants that prevailed across the country; the restriction or nonexistence of women’s and LGBTQ rights.
In the face of this, I find myself turning away from public narrative. I look for solidarity or consolation in the private narratives of others — literature mostly. And so, I look to George Orwell, who admonishes, in his essay “Inside the Whale,” that for people raised, like us, in a country built on rule of law, “such things as purges, secret police, summary executions, imprisonment without trial, etc., etc., are too remote to be terrifying. They can swallow totalitarianism because they have no experience of anything except liberalism.
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