Monuments of Honor, Monuments of Shame
Gun advocates often proclaim that guns don’t kill people, but that people kill people. Of course, this has a kernel of truth to it while also glossing over the inherent violent potential in those guns.
That sort of truth can also be applied to any published text.
The enslavement of Black people in the U.S. was supported by citing Biblical passages among, for example, Southern Baptists.
In other words, meaning tends to be less objectively in any object and more so in the intent of those imposing meaning on that thing.
With the election of Donald Trump as the U.S. president, many in the country became more ad more concerned about the possibility of fascism and totalitarianism coming to a free people grown lazy in their consumerism.
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and George Orwell’s 1984 saw a surge in popularity among those troubled by Trump and his supporters.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, however, the U.S. is now facing another CONTINUE READING: Monuments of Honor, Monuments of Shame – radical eyes for equity
