Evan Osnos, "Wildland"

Evan Osnos, "Wildland: The Making of America's Fury" (2021)

 

 

This book is the story of a crucible, a period bounded by two

assaults on the country's sense of itself: the attack on New York and

Washington, on September 11, 2001, and the attack on the U.S. Capitol,

on January 6, 2021. It is a period in which America lost their vision for

the common good .... A century and a half after the Civil War,

America was again a cloven nation. (p. 13)

 

[I]t often put me in mind of an observation

from the Civil War by Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state,

William Seward: "There was always just enough virtue in this

republic to save it; sometimes none to spare." (p. 406)

 

유감스럽게도, 지금의 한국이 지금의 미국과 많이 비슷하다.

갈라진 사회인 것도, Seward 의 말을 떠올리게 하는 것도.

(2022 한국 대선 득표율: 이재명 + 심상정 50.2%, 윤석열 48.2%)

 

 

▶ Two Authors View America From Above and Below, and Are Not Happy