Facticity

“I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.”

I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.

One of the problems with our political press is that its reference group for establishing the “ground” of consensus is the insiders: the professional political class in Washington. It then offers that consensus to the country as if it were the country’s own, when it’s not, necessarily. This erodes confidence in a way that may be invisible to journalists behaving as insiders themselves. And it gives the opening to Jon Stewart and his kind to exploit that gap I talked about between making news and making sense.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

I was shy, withdrawn, and read obsessionally. But I never wanted to be anyone else other than me.