“Because just imagine--just imaging the alternative, the world in which a man encounters some scrap of information, about the murder rate in his neighborhood, or about the presence of troops on the northern border, or what time the bus is supposed to come--any of the small and large pieces of information a person encounters in the course of a day or a lifetime, personal or political, substantive or trivial--and then the next hour or the next day he hears something different, and it is impossible, literally impossible, to know which version is the real one.” TruthPoliticalInformationNewsLies Book:Golden State Source: Golden State
“The election of Donald Trump is, to me, this very clownish personality with no political experience, who had literally been using fascist slogans in his campaign. It had seemed so impossible. Even after he was elected, and even now, it still feels impossible. It felt like we had fallen into this wormhole of history.” FeelsStillsPoliticalFeltImpossiblePersonalityTrumpElectionCampaignsFallenSlogansFascistsWormholes Author:Ben H. Winters
“I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a culture, feel like politics is one sector of our lives that can feel apart from our personal lives and the cultural things we're interested in and the sports we watch. It feels like this separate, different thing.” PeopleThinkingFeelsDifferentRealSometimesHardPoliticalCultureSportsWatchesOur LivesConsequenceReal LifeDifferent ThingsPersonal LifePolitical Change Author:Ben H. Winters
“One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.” PeopleDoeRealPlayBigsPoliticalIndividualFictionMoralIssuesOne ThingBig PicturePolitical Change Author:Ben H. Winters
“Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in. Sometimes I feel like, well, perhaps it's not right because as a political activist, this is where politics is happening right now. This is where the conversation is going on, but at the same time, I think there is something corrosive about it.” ThinkingMenWantFeelsWellsHas BeensSelfSometimesFeelingsAmericaPoliticalPresidentMastersTrumpRight NowConversationHappeningsClubsCrueltyMediumsActivist Author:Ben H. Winters
