WC has borrowed the title of this blog post. It’s the opening line from Joan Didion‘s superb collection of essays, The White Album, among the very best nonfiction treatments of the upheavals during decade of the 1960s. For WC, one of the most troubling aspects of the 1960s was that Americans seemed to lose the ability to agree on far too many critical things: the war in Vietnam, political candidates, crime in America; the list seemed endless. Didion described many instances of people closing their minds, not just to one side but to the existence of the issue. She was watching, in Hawai’i, the broadcast of Robert Kennedy’s funeral. When a fellow tourist lingered to take in a scene from the funeral Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the man she was with exclaimed, “We’ll get enough church in the…
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