Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
About the Creator
The Road by Cormac McCarthy:
"If he is not the word of God, God never spoke." It's a line spoken by The Man, unnamed, early on in the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It's this line, elegiac and moving, infused with despair and hope, that informs you, you're not reading something you'll easily forget.
By Adam Diehl3 days ago in Critique
Cracks in the Kingdom
In the Children’s Fable the Tortoise and the Hare, the Hare is known for his jack rabbit starts and stops, his frantic approach, his unsustainable energy. We learn from the tortoise that slow and steady wins the race. Similarly, the global political and economic theater has been dominated by the frantic energy of the Hare. We have been told that speed is synonymous with success, that "jackrabbit starts" in innovation and market deregulation are the only way to outrun poverty and stagnation. But as the ecological and social architecture of our system is cracking, we are witnessing a "Great Unmasking." The facade of the infinite sprint is collapsing, revealing a system with unsustainable DNA. The DNA of capitalism is programmed for its own exhaustion. We have ignored the ancient wisdom of the children’s fable, forgetting that the Hare’s velocity was never a sign of strength, but a symptom of a volatile internal loop that prioritizes the burst over the journey.
By Susan Eileen about 3 hours ago in Critique
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