A trip home always is a potent reminder of where you came from and how important those roots really are.
Maybe because I am older than you, maybe because I am a historian, but this sentence kept popping up in my mind. It is so good to remember this from time to time. It helps to keep your feet on the ground. It also makes grateful, because when I was a little child and a teenager, I had loving and caring parents. I benefit from that until today.
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"On Tyranny." I'm so thankful that success found me later in life, I feel so much more grounded now than when I was younger. I hope you're doing well, spring is coming soon!I very much agree @clio. I just finished a very interesting book that reminded me of the importance of remembering history (in a larger sense )called
I looked on the internet and found the book you were referring to. I found out he won the Hannah Arendt Prize for political thought. I read Hannah Arendt book: " Three faces of fascism" as a student and it made a huge impression.
Snyder discusses important topics. Reading books and language use for instance. He says:
"In the president’s frame of reference events are only ever bad or sad or mad. With his Dr. Seuss vocabulary, he can present the world as a place of simplistic oppositions, stripped of nuance."
Scary. What I read about this book of Timothy Snyder is reason to order it when I am back in the Netherlands. Thank you for the tip.
Hi, @clio. You're welcome. It sounds like I need to read Hannah's book. Tom Snyder talks a lot about language and symbolism and how it was used in the Trump campaign as well as after the election. It's downright frightening how far we've slipped in just a year, it can happen so fast. We very well may end up coming to the Netherlands soon to live if things get much worse.