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Category Archives: Been readin’…
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #10
Ideology is what humans use to justify to ourselves doing things we know are wrong. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said this in The Gulag Archipelago)
Hillbilly Elegy, Ruby Bridges, and the SC State Fair
Three things recently came together that got me thinking. I just finished reading Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, a memoir of his growing up in a decaying Rust Belt community in Ohio, and his family of transplanted folk from Eastern … Continue reading