Privilege and awakening
Sometimes I feel like I am in one of those novels like FARENHEIT 451, where I am one of those proud citizens of one of the world's best nations--gradually realizing that in fact it is one of the ugliest, most abusive, least honorable of nations... That its promises are lies, its ideals are hiding terrible truths, its actual effect on the rest of the world and its own citizens, except for the most powerful, is inimical. All that is happening now in the bright light of day has always gone on, and... Sign in to see full entry.