September 15, 2019

Mailer’s Political Resonance

Personal Responsibility (The Necessity of Criticism)
- “When you have a great country, it’s your duty to be critical of it so it can become even greater.”^[1]
- Cancer is an outgrowth of inaction or conformity.^[2]
“Democracy is existential”^[3]
- We cannot take democracy for granted because it is always in peril and changes all the time.^[4]
Corporate Capitalism

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