Dr. Naomi Wolf is an excellent writer.
This is worth the ten minutes of your time to read the whole thing.
Here is just a taste - go and read the whole thing:
Opening Boxes from 2019
When, in Fall of 2019, I moved out of what had been my home in the West Village, I thought I was simply moving from one place to another. I was excited to build a home again, this time in the South Bronx.
Brian and I ultimately lived in the South Bronx for only four months — until March 11 2020, when we looked at one another and realized we had to get into his SUV and keep driving North. As I described in my book The Bodies of Others, when then-Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Broadway was closing — just like that, a CCP-style state fiat, not an American-style individuals-dealing-with-an-emergency announcement — we both realized that bad things were coming, though whether natural or political we could not yet tell.
Bit more:
I was opening boxes now that were not just from another place — as is usual when you move; not just from another time; but I was opening boxes that were from literally another world. I don’t know that such a thing has happened in quite this way in history before.
And this:
The old world, the pre-2019 world, is a scene of wreckage and carnage to me.
The old world I left behind, and that left me behind, is not a post-COVID world.
It is a post-truth world, a post-institutional world.
The institutions that supported the world that existed when these 2019 boxes were packed, have all collapsed; in a welter of corruption, in an abandonment of public mission and public trust.I look at them now the way Persephone looking backward without regret at Hades.
Much much more - this is an epic piece and deserves to be widely read.
Really captures the shift in America. The gulf between the elite and the rest of us.
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