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1. “We live in a country in which words are mostly used to cover the sleeper, not to wake him up; and therefore, it seems to me, the adulation so cruelly proffered our elders has nothing to do with their achievement – which, I repeat, was mighty – but has to do with our impulse to look back on what we now imagine to have been a happier time. It is an adulation which has panic at the root.”
James Baldwin
Language, False Nostalgia, Societal Panic, Elder Adulation, Words' Power, Imagined Past
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1. “We live in a country in which words are mostly used to cover the sleeper, not to wake him up; and therefore, it seems to me, the adulation so cruelly proffered our elders has nothing to do with their achievement – which, I repeat, was mighty – but has to do with our impulse to look back on what we now imagine to have been a happier time. It is an adulation which has panic at the root.”
James Baldwin Language, False Nostalgia, Societal Panic, Elder Adulation, Words' Power, Imagined Past
