Tell the children the truth.
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.
This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
God is found in this Life. . . to wait for another is folly.
We make our tools, and then they shape us.
I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.