May 11
Because they do not believe in words … their only proficient vocabulary is in the society’s platitudes. As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who will settle for saying, to indicate that their mother and father do not live together, that they come from ‘a broken home.’
— Joan Didion, “Slouching towards Bethlehem” (1967)
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