Art makes us want to be alive, but it also gives us context for what we’re experiencing right now. It reflects our world back to us. It helps us make sense of things that simply don’t make sense.
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Doublethink, or “to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them (32),” sounds curiously like what it takes to be a member of the current Republican Party. I have looked into the faces of people who at once love me and vote for my expulsion from public life.
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What I actually think the reporting points to, and what I think goes largely unsaid, is that the nuclear family is killing us. The fetishization of and strict adherence to two parents providing and taking care of a household enables addiction to fester because it atomizes our communities.
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But after a brief hiatus, Book Club in the Time of Trump is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER!
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